Google executive frustrated by Java, C++ complexity

Google executive frustrated by Java, C++ complexity Google's Rob Pike makes the case for simpler programming languages at the OSCON open source conference Today's commercial-grade programming languages -- C++ and Java, in particular -- are way too complex and not adequately suited for today's computing environments, Google distinguished engineer Rob Pike argued in a talk Thursday at the O'Reilly O

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I don't have many opportunities to use new programming languages because most of my programming tasks are to modify existing code written in C++. I believe there're lots of such programmers, and many of them are frustrated by the traditional languages.