One could imagine a metapackage where 

using StandardLibrary

imports all the goodies (as Gabriel put it), and that wouldn't be too 
painful. Would it be possible to have it the other way around though, where 
all the goodies are imported unless you do something else like

exclude StandardLibrary

or 

julia --barebones

That way the extra work falls to the presumably more experienced users who 
want more control, rather than the potential ex-MATLAB user who just wants 
to take an fft. Of course this only makes sense for the StandardLibrary, 
not for a world with many distributions.

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