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zefram@tao.co.uk said:
> That's actually going one step beyond another idea I'd had -- to link 
> libperl into a module that provides the perl command as a builtin. 

Adding dynamically loadable perl (and other) syntax is a cool idea, though.  
We could write perl functions, and have them just work without an extra 
process.