[BruceIV]

C++ is a beast of a language that has semantics which are pretty much too big to keep in your head - I think the best potential for this is some of the new languages targeting some of the same ends (Rust is closer to the capabilities of C++, but Go is more mature and has better tooling).

[Roboprog]

Alas, "Go" was forced to look sorta like C, even though it really acts more like Modula with closures and garbage collection. (ignoring that C & Modula are both just redressed Algol)

Go is more of a C-like counter example of the things the author is talking about, with its authoritarian use of K&R curly brace formatting, and not making statements into expressions.

[sodiumphosphate]

Right on. I would definitely constrain such a thing to a small subset of C++.