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I'm not really sure that makes sense. A lot of popular languages don't have a benevolent dictator, and they are meant to be general-purpose languages. Scheme and C++ are two examples of this. It is interesting that as different as the languages are in terms of scope of the core, non-trivial programs written in either are also not trivially portable, yet there is a perception that C++ is more usable than Scheme, even though large distributions of both have a shitton of libraries (e.g. MS C++ and PLT Scheme).