[ehsanu1]

You may be interested in this (see the section about Nothing and Maru): http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf

A lot of work there has been done in completely replacing the entire current software development stack with something more reasonable (in terms of size/bloat and design). They aim for a full system (frontend user apps to the metal) in under 20,000 lines of code. Check it out. Quite the alternative to C, and everything.

[Dn_Ab]

Thanks yeah, I've heard of VPRI and read a few of thier papers and seen some of their videos. Alan Kay is one of my heroes and I really do think that the idea of breaking down problems to domains and working within that is very important going forward.