It's been over a year since I last wrote about contenders for the throne that C currently sits upon, so I'll spare you the prosy introduction and cut to the chase. I'd like to share some thoughts on my recent foray into a little programming language I came across while browsing lobste.rs some years ago: Myrddin , the pet project of Ori Bernstein . From the language specification, "Myrddin is designed to be a simple programming language. It is designed to provide the programmer with predictable b