I'm not a huge fan after a quick read - the new syntax adds too many new keywords for my tastes e.g. type, inherits, abstract, lang, obj, func etc. I'm of the s

I'm not a huge fan after a quick read - the new syntax adds too many new keywords for my tastes e.g. type, inherits, abstract, lang, obj, func etc. I'm of the school of thought that words with semantic meaning should be used as much as possible for expressing the logic and meaning of the program itself, rather than the language. Otherwise, it becomes harder to separate the actual program from the language - this is one of Java's problems. Particularly take the class declarations as an example: type ListClass : class inherits public ListBase, private virtual ListImpl { /* member declarations */ } adds nothing but verbosity to the C++ declaration: class ListClass : public ListBase, private virtual ListImpl { /* member declarations */ };