In some programming languages, e.g. TeX, Forth, PostScript, etc you cannot really syntax highlight the program without executing it. However, syntax highlightin

In some programming languages, e.g. TeX, Forth, PostScript, etc you cannot really syntax highlight the program without executing it. However, syntax highlighting is a feature that I can do without, and I don't think those programming languages are bad. In some programming languages, such as C and Free Hero Mesh, you can read the sequence of tokens despite there are macros, which you need not parse to find where the tokens are (although I think older versions of the C preprocessor did not work like this). They mention tools. I do think valgrind is sometimes helpful; I do use that. However, Git is not the only version control system; some people prefer others, such as Mercurial, Fossil, etc. I use Fossil. They also mention error messages. I like the first one; print one error message and quit. However, in some cases, it might be possible to easily just ignore that error and continue after displaying the error message (and then finally fail at the end). It might also be possible to skip a lot of stuff, and then continue, e.g. if there is an unknown variable or function then you might display an error message and then skip the entire statement that mentions it. They mention a runtime library. This should be reduced as much as possible, I think, and if you can make it so that it has functions which will only be included in the compiled program when they are used, that can be a good idea, since you can include some functions that many people don't need and don't waste space and time with them. Something they did not mention but I think it is very good to have and useful is metaprogramming and 'pataprogramming. But I also think that different programming languages can be good for different purposes, and that some are domain specific, and some are easier to write than others. This can be done using existing syntax or new syntax, and I have done both, and so have some others. Another thing that I can recommend to have is a discussion system with NNTP; even Digital Mars themself have a NNTP-based discussion system. Perhaps better will be to have the same messages with NNTP, web forum, and mailing lists; again, this is what Digital Mars does. However, I do think that minimizing keystrokes is helpful. Minimizing runtime dependencies and runtime memory usage is also helpful.