A couple of notes: 1. This paper is from 1996 (oh my! 14 years), and so does not consider the syntactic clean-up performed with C++0X. 2. The paper is co-auth

A couple of notes: 1. This paper is from 1996 (oh my! 14 years), and so does not consider the syntactic clean-up performed with C++0X. 2. The paper is co-authored by Damian Conway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway), perl legend, author of Quantum::Superpositions (http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Quantum-Superpositions-1.03/lib/Quantum/Superpositions.pm http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Quantum-Superpositions-1.03/...) 3. This seems to be part of research conducted on 'Human Factors in Programming Languages', which includes another paper on the design of SPECS (the syntactic clean-up mentioned in this paper), and another interesting-sounding one: 'Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design' (see http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/ http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/).