C is lots of magic and quirkiness. This reminds me. From a spec/design perspective Ceylon was the cleanest language I know. Almost everything, including a lot

C is lots of magic and quirkiness. This reminds me. From a spec/design perspective Ceylon was the cleanest language I know. Almost everything, including a lot of the keywords were actually defined in the standard library. The fact that Integer was actually a Java int behind the scenes was just a compiler implementation detail. There was very little "magic". If you wanted to know how something in the language worked you could just look at the standard library.