It sounds like aggitation excerpted so, but the write up does a wonderful job setting up for it, making this stunner of a line not seem so bad: > For many C de

It sounds like aggitation excerpted so, but the write up does a wonderful job setting up for it, making this stunner of a line not seem so bad: > For many C developers looking to upgrade their language, Rust looks a lot like a better C++, not a better C. What a line! The whats-included/what's-not takes me back to one of our legendary/epic (and at 9000 words, epic in length) posts, one I love to cite, Larry Wall's Perl, the first postmoderm computimg language[1]. A cut up early & favorite section: > When I started designing Perl, I explicitly set out to deconstruct all the computer languages I knew and recombine or reconstruct them in a different way, because there were many things I liked about other languages, and many things I disliked. I lovingly reused features from many languages... To the extent that Perl rules rather than sucks, it's because the various features of these languages ruled rather than sucked. > But note something important here. I left behind more than I took. A lot more. In modern terms, there was a lot of stuff that sucked. Now, on the feature set issue, Perl is always getting a lot of bad press... I think people who give bad press to Perl's feature set should have more angst about their reporting. > I picked the feature set of Perl because I thought they were cool features. I left the other ones behind because I thought they sucked. It's silly & basic plainly said like this, but the post goes on & on about finding creative use & also at length about deciding to leave things behind. Walls postmodernism is infectious. And this element of pruning, pairing down, is one that seems like an axis where elegance & grace can often take root & grow in todays busy, complicated world where so very much has accrued & accreted. [1] http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html