Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't.

Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.

The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.