| 1 | built-in cpp |
| 2 | perl to C translator |
| 3 | multi-threading |
| 4 | make more easily embeddable |
| 5 | built-in globbing |
| 6 | compile to threaded code |
| 7 | rewrite regexp parser for better integrated optimization |
| 8 | add structured types and objects |
| 9 | allow for lexical scoping |