Personally I'd feel fairly happy saying, for example, that Lisp and Perl had more features than Java and C

Oh, absolutely. You'd be crazy to deny, for example, that Python has more features than FORTRAN. There are certainly languages that have more features than others. But would you be happy pointing at one language and saying that it had more features that all other languages? I don't think it can be done in any meaningful way. That's the point I was trying to make.

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In reply to Re^3: wondering the development of perl by davorg
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