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Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)
Sorry for joining in so late... But wouldn't it be a pretty simple task to
design a Lisp-ish front end translator to the existing Dylan compilers? That
would satisfy the Lispers among us and give us back our powerful macro
system (warts and all!).
Just wondering...
- David McClain
Jon S Anthony wrote in message <395D43D1.5B32@synquiry.com>...
>Scott Ribe wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000, David Bakhash <cadet@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>--
>Jon Anthony
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