Lol "Sepples"

Pfft, stop pretending you don't need C/C++ to run your toy language,
since it was written in C/C++.

>>20
Keep the language small and simple.
C99 is 552 pages.
Provide only one way to do an operation.
strcpy, strncpy, memcpy, memmove, ...
gets, fgets, strn?*, array vs pointers, ...
Make it fast, even if it is not guaranteed to be portable.
Pointers make C ``hard'' to optimize.