He meant nothing "less worse" than C. And linux is not written in C, but in gcc extended C. Plain C is already way too complex and rich, not on the absurd and

He meant nothing "less worse" than C. And linux is not written in C, but in gcc extended C. Plain C is already way too complex and rich, not on the absurd and grotesque level of c++ though: integer promotion, typedef, enum, switch should go (_generic too ofc), only one loop keyword (loop{}) should stay, no anonymous code block, only explicit compile time and runtime type casts (except maybe from/to void* and literals), explicit compile-time constant (don't rely on compiler optimization), primitive types should be sized (u8/s8/../u64/s64/f64 or ub/sb../uq/sq/fq), properly define preprocessor variable argument macros (the optional ','), well I think people get the idea.