NC++EG

[David G. Hough on validgh]

Maybe this is the right approach.  There is very definitely a hardening
of the arteries in the ANSI-C camp.  On the other hand C++ is still a
fluid language - it is being prematurely standardized, in my view, to
the extent that the inventor still is not satisfied with it.  Being fluid
may imply more flexibility about other kinds of extensions, though.  What
kind of people are on the C++ ANSI committee?

Fluid or not, prematurely standardized or not, many people (for instance
at Sun) think C++ rather than C should be our systems programming language.
Of course they all want suitable extensions...

A stable language definition, plus a high-performance compiler, would seem
to be pre-requisites.