[Jtsummers]

Most of it doesn't seem terribly new. It's like a hybrid of some classic-Algol-style, C-style, and Haskell-style (particularly at the function/struct declarations), but mostly C-style.

That he seems to have thought deliberately about stepwise refactoring is actually pretty nice. This is hard to do in many languages (where refactoring-to-function/method is often a wholesale endeavor). Doing it stepwise means you can iterate and test more deliberately throughout the process, and is nicer if you're not using a refactoring tool beyond your text editor.

In the end, reading the example code caused me no headaches, it was as clear as any other C/Algol-derived language.