[COFF] What languges would you like to learn?

[Larry McVoy]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 05:34:29PM +0100, Thomas Paulsen wrote:
> Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> > C++ seems to encourage complexity and I hate complexity.
> ... by adding generics plus object orientation to the  complexity of C.
> 
> However the (Mr. Big) attitude of some C++ developer teams seems to be
> the  real problem, 'forcing' each other to use all the fancy features of
> the language. Beside that, one can easily write modest OO code having
> many advantages over C code, like name spaces, classes, containers,
> strings etc.

What I'd really like is a "C+".  Take C, cherry pick stuff that obviously
makes C better, repeat.

It's basically what we did with http://little-lang.org