D vs Go on reddit

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Funny though, right after I posted "You'd think that things like JS...", the 
> obvious devil's-advocate counter-argument occurred to me: "You'd think that 
> things like C++ and Algol would have taught people that complex languages 
> are a stupid way to go." Oh well.

What matters is if I can express a program in a simple, straightforward manner. 
Not if the implementation language is simple or not.

C++ fails at the former.