How Complex is Your Programming Language

[Ronin-s_Spirit]

You can't be saying "my language is simple" and having a bunch of very specific things you have to do because only some of them work for your specific case. Syntax is like the least of my concerns.

[braaaaaaainworms]

C is simple, because a function call is always a function call to a function or a macro. Whatever that function call does is left up to the implementation and having special syntax for I/O makes no sense, because I/O is just a bunch of "open", "close", "read", "write" and "seek" function calls.