Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)

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• Subject: Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)
• From: Simon Brooke <simon@jasmine.org.uk>
• Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 05:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
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Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org> writes:

> In article <kpamlscdjl89ihfhsdk3d4rinoa1hji78j@4ax.com>, Jason Trenouth 
> <jason@harlequin.com> wrote:
> 
> > Well, Dylan really isn't C-ish syntax. No braces (except in macro 
> > definitions), no casting, postfix type declarations, and very
> > different (Lisp/Scheme-like) identifier conventions. Unfortunately,
> > from the point of view of promulgating the language, Dylan's syntax
> > looks very alien to many C programmers.
> 
> I suspect that the guys tasked with coming up with the infix syntax were 
> concerned that if it looked *too* C-like then people would expect it to 
> have C semantics.

Isn't there also an (alternative) prefix syntax for Dylan? That must
be even more lisp-like (says Simon, never having tried it).

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simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

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