I think it's fair to say(?) that Larry's adoption of regex as a first class aspect of perl was one of its unique strengths. My opinion is that none of the subse

I think it's fair to say(?) that Larry's adoption of regex as a first class aspect of perl was one of its unique strengths. My opinion is that none of the subsequent languages (Python, Go, Rust, etc) that incorporated regex really embraced it - was more of a bolt on. So there has been a syntactic barrier to incorporate or improve regex within those languages. Not so with Larry's raku which had the vision to build on the perl basis and to address many of the inconsistencies that have been baked in elsewhere.