Why emphasize implementation ease?
Isn’t ease of use for the user of the language more important? Yes, it is. But a vaporware language is useless to everyone. The easier a language is to implement, the more robust implementations there will be. In C’s heyday, there were 30 different commercial C compilers for the IBM PC. Not many made the transition to C++. In looking at the C++ compilers on the market today, how many years of development went into each? At least 10 years? Programmers waited years for the various pieces of C++ to get implemented after they were specified. If C++ was not so enormously popular, it’s doubtful that very complex features like multiple inheritance, templates, etc., would ever have been implemented. I suggest that if a language is easier to implement, then it is likely also easier to understand. Isn’t it better to spend time learning to write better programs than language arcana? If a language can capture 90% of the power of C++ with 10% of its complexity, I argue that is a worthwhile tradeoff
