I was interested to check how various languages compare in complexity to ALGOL 68. As a rough proxy for complexity let's look at the number of pages in their la

I was interested to check how various languages compare in complexity to ALGOL 68. As a rough proxy for complexity let's look at the number of pages in their language specifications (excluding glossaries, examples, libraries, etc.): * ALGOL 68 spec: 209 pages * C: 418 pages * C++: 457 pages * Python: 148 pages (but doesn't include a lot of things in PEPs) * Rust: doesn't have a specification but does have a 600 page book * Lisp: 48 pages * Go: 109 pages Some of these have more detail than others - the C spec is very detailed and the Go one is clearly intended to be more human readable than detail oriented. Also I've excluded core library specs here and they add a lot to some of these specs, but arguably some are "more core" than others so they're not really comparable.