Readability

• Simplicity
• Few basic features - language not bloated
• Extreme: Lack of control structures in Assembly Language, HLLs
• No feature multiplicity
• Operator Overloading
• Good: Same meaning in many contexts (e.g., / operator for int, double in C++)
• Bad: Many meanings in same context (e.g., * operator for multiplication, dereferencing in C++)
• Orthogonality:
• Lack of Orthogonality - C++
• Too much Orthogonality - ALGOL 68
• Optimum Orthogonality - Functional Languages such as LISP
• Availability of Control Statements
• Boolean versus Integer data type
• Array of structures versus Collection of arrays
• Data Structures
• Syntax Considerations