I've already guessed it will most likely be without pointers and now
>>15-san assures me. Wow. It's like most 'modern' langs are actually just C minus 2 or 3 features (mostly pointers, the preprocessor or the typing system) and then some gimmicks tacked on (like string interpolation, half-assed OOP or 'functional' programming -- which C has, to some extent, too).
[..] we wondered what we could do without the baggage of C.
A JavaScript clone?!? 