> I guess I'm not terribly impressed. It actually makes me long for the simplicity of C.
You might want to try Go. One of the great things about Go is that is almost completely devoid of 'magic', and what it says is what it does, and what does what it says.
The syntax is much simpler than C's, and it lacks the (very good at obfuscating) preprocessor.
Once you read the spec (is short and sweet) is very easy to know what a piece of code does by just looking at it.
At the same time Go code is not verbose and manages to be very concise.
You might want to try Go. One of the great things about Go is that is almost completely devoid of 'magic', and what it says is what it does, and what does what it says.
The syntax is much simpler than C's, and it lacks the (very good at obfuscating) preprocessor.
Once you read the spec (is short and sweet) is very easy to know what a piece of code does by just looking at it.
At the same time Go code is not verbose and manages to be very concise.