Yes, that's what I intended to say. Maybe "foundations" would've been clearer. The first two of which would probably be the language design itself and the impl

Yes, that's what I intended to say. Maybe "foundations" would've been clearer. The first two of which would probably be the language design itself and the implementation. I'd rather not argue about the former, and regarding the latter I don't have a lot of experience with Perl, although I've heard that it's gotten better once they awoke out of the post-Perl6 slump. Still, Tcl was always pretty great in that regard. But as we're talking about the CPAN here, a lot of the alternatives come out short-handed, and Tcl amongst them. I remember the days when you had a different interpreter for every extension...