The Next Big Language

[Walter Bright]

Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Knowing the syntax and knowing how to use a language are two very
> different things. If you're a newbie you can learn the C syntax in a
> couple of weeks, but you would be very wrong to assume that you know
> e.g. "70%" of C, and that you could read any C project and understand
> it well.

Yes, and knowing the syntax does not mean one understands the idiomatically 
correct way to write C programs. For a famous example, people coming to C from 
Pascal in the 80's would write:

#define BEGIN {
#define END }

It takes a while to learn better.