General goals:

• small and fast
• cross-platform
• credible replacement for shell-scripting
• good documentation
• ease of installation and use
• good platform for application development

NON goals:

• ANS compliance
• kitchen-sink feature-set
• completeness

Goals for development:

• wider array of libraries
• autoload Windows/Linux/Mac standard library words
• breakpoints, maybe profiling
• Database application framework