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

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)
From: Johan Kullstam <kullstam@ne.mediaone.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 12:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
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"Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net> writes:

> Christopher Browne wrote in message ...
> 
> >
> >Ah, but when you're trying to sell _Dylan_, when it has _no_ market,
> >having a community of Lisp adopters might have been a Good Thing, and
> >might well have represented a lot more than 1% of the market _for
> >Dylan_.
> 
> 
> Hey, look, if the only thing that Lispers care about is having
> Lisp syntax, then they are as closed-minded as the C and Java
> communities.  Syntax is trivial.  Get over it.

it's not.  i like the lisp syntax because of its clean look.  more
importantly, the syntax is what lets lisp have such powerful and
useful macros.  with a less regular or less simple syntax you could
never do it as easily nor to such great effect.  it has nothing to do
with being closed minded.  sometimes certain things really are better;
this is such a case.

-- 
J o h a n  K u l l s t a m
[kullstam@ne.mediaone.net]
Don't Fear the Penguin!

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