[galaxyLogic]

This is important, think about the whole Web. Too many ways of doing things and too much backwards compatibility needed for tools to develop further.

I always cringed at languages like Perl and also Groovy where the pride of the language designers seemed to be that there are so many ways to do the same thing.

[sigzero]

There are so many ways to do the same thing...in any language. That's just reality.

[popcube]

but Perl have backwards compatibility, developers keep perl1 source code can run on current version.