If a language includes more than just processing directives and code organization then that becomes more of a language/platform/framework than just a language.

If a language includes more than just processing directives and code organization then that becomes more of a language/platform/framework than just a language. Often these are geared to a specific domain such as desktop or web software and try to give you tools that you'll most often need. If you don't need additional libraries then you are probably doing things that the authors of the language/platform/framework thought would be necessary. The other language language/platform/framework, which I am familiar with, is ColdFusion. If you are doing web development and fit with-in only the functionality available to you by default then you are fine. If you want to abstract away certain things or do more than average web development then outside libraries are necessary, especially in the user-interface side of things.