alt Hacker NewsI wonder how many programming languages would be able to devoid of all or some of these problems when they are 40 years old.
It's easy to compare new and old languages, and saying older languages are wrinkly. Let's see how other shiny programming languages look like when they are 40 years old.
Python, Java, Lua, Ruby are ~30 years old, Ada being as old as C++.
Sure, none is perfect and they have cruft and warts, but they are not such a mess as C++ is.