Programming Language Feature Overload

Slices Function literals Static construction order Namespaces Unified function calling system Bounds checks High order functions Dynamic functions Unit tests Memory safety Dynamic functions Executable macros Templates Dynamic structure changes Multiple dispatch Lazy evaluation Add/rem slots Strongly typed language Lambdas Exception handling Implicit parallelism Monads Generics Closures Thread sync primitives Tail call elimination Reflection Function overloading Introspection Delegates Catchable recursion exception Inner classes Macro preprocessor independence Mixins Strings Resizable arrays Resizable arrays String switches Contract programming Dynamic method loading operator overloading for switch size_t if while ** byte goto int char

A programmer is shown buried under an overwhelming list of advanced programming-language features, while a small figure nearby writes a handful of basic C keywords. The joke contrasts ambitious language design with the simple, practical core of C and mocks the tendency to overload a language with features. EN: A programmer is shown buried under an overwhelming list of advanced programming-language features, while a small figure nearby writes a handful of basic C keywords. The joke contrasts ambitious language design with the simple, practical core of C and mocks the tendency to overload a language with features.

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