What's wrong with C++?

Another Quora answer : Phil Jones’s answer to Why is C++ considered a bad language? This is one of those rare occasions I disagree with Simon Kinahan; although his answer sets the scene for this one. [Simon says that C++ isn’t a bad language. It’s the right choice if you need low-level memory control and …

And I thought I was ambitious, trying to write a programming language! My friend Oli has decided to reinvent programming as we know it. Details are still trickling out via his web-site : Semantic Programming. And I’m in frenzied skype conversation with him, trying to figure out what it’s all about. In outline, it starts …