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Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)
Scott Ribe wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000, David Bakhash <cadet@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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> So, given that you must make a choice, and given that you'd like Dylan to
> become popular, which group do you deprive of their comfortable syntax?
> The group that is terrified of anything that looks too different? Or the
> group that can see beyond the surface and understand what a language
> really offers?
The oddest thing about this is that "you" ended up "depriving" _both_.
A C/C++ hack is _never_ going to go with "pascal-ish" syntax. Never.
And the Lisp folks won't go for it because, frankly, it is
fundamentally broken with respect to macros.
> made that a much more difficult thing to do. With Sun marketing cranking
> out lies, backed by millions of $, faster than they can be debunked,
True. But they also understood if you are going after popularity you
need to cozy up to the same broken, butt/bug-ugly syntax that caters
to the infantilism of the C crowd.
/Jon
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