You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.