[mattnewport]

I rarely see anyone present well thought out specifics of what should be removed from the language when making these types of claim. There are some complex areas (two phase name lookup springs to mind) that might be done differently if designed anew but I haven't seen too many good examples of things that could be "easily" removed, backwards compatibility be damned, that I have found to be actual problems in practice. The best examples are usually legacies of C.