Damian Conway's Modest Proposal

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProposal.html

A proposal to create a new language on top of C++. Unfortunately, it's co-authored by a noted Perltard, and some of the operators are... icky.

They lost me at "+:=". Also, the argument of mathematical consistency for using "=" instead of "==" is bone-headed. Maybe it's that Dave Mark was especially skilled at explaining C when I taught myself (16 years ago...), but I have never, ever been confused by "==". Since the only way their proposal could meet with success is if it was embraced by existing C++ programmers, they should have left the operators alone.