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"Hardly anyone knows X. Let's replace it with something nobody knows."

Because there's a value proposition. Just like TCL, Perl, and Lisp had value propositions over other available languages. It's fine if you don't see the value proposition in Crush but progress sometimes forces us to learn new things instead of sticking with what we have.





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