Christopher Wright wrote:
On a more serious note, the standard library and available IDEs often have more to do with ease of use of a language than the language itself (assuming the language is reasonable).
I disagree. I still find D _much_ easier than C++ even though C++ has tons of "standard" libraries and at least one passable IDE (SourceInsight; don't get me started on VS). Similarly, I would argue Ruby is easier than Perl, even though the latter has better libraries/development environments. Oh, and ML vs Scheme... yeah, I think the language has a lot to do with it.
