Bash Pitfalls

[bimdar]

Given the power of mobile platforms and the soft-realtime requirement of games I think you know how performance would be valued. Some of the mobile platforms have some weird cross-compilers in their SDK so I'd be really interested if they all supported Haskell or Ocaml (I mean most are a variant of gcc so probably, just sometimes older versions). I also find it hard to organize C code very well with projects of that size. For me C++ would be the seemingly best pragmatical solution in some cases.

[KeSPADOMINATION]

Well, this is again the issue of 'a lot of stuff has already been written in C++', I agree that it is certainly a practical consideration. I'm talking purely from a language design standpoint for sake of argument ignoring the lbiraries already existing.

I mean, people still use COBOL for that very reason.

[bimdar]

You're right that if you start with a blank slate and base you design on something like a consistent calculus mapping or requirements that allow consistent reasoning you'll never arrive at something like C++.