Did it need to grow up, truly?<p>The module system needed to be sorted out, sure. Some of the rough edges around Number and Array, sure.<p>But let&#x27;s not kid ourselves...everything else being added is basically just gravy, and it&#x27;s gravy that sometimes comes at the expense of readability.<p>Just because it&#x27;s not &quot;a modern language&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean it isn&#x27;t quite good at what it did--we still use C for that same reason.