I'm not sure if this was intended as a reply to my comment. In any case, I would suggest that a language be powerful and simple enough that it can do a wide ra

I'm not sure if this was intended as a reply to my comment. In any case, I would suggest that a language be powerful and simple enough that it can do a wide range of tasks including teaching children, GUI apps, web apps, AI research, scripting, etc. Python does this and Pyret should aspire to do it too.