>Jumping off the extensibility of XML, the flexibility of the underlying representation enables Flare to do several fundamental things in fundamentally different ways. Flare incorporates wholly new features, as well as several popular features of other languages which have never before been brought together. The current proposed design for Flare has many proposed features intended to increase cleanliness, modularity, and safety; some of them wholly innovative, others inspired by languages including Python, Java, C++, Eiffel, Common LISP, Scheme, Perl, Haskell, and more

I can't tell if this is satire or not