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Thanks for the in-depth response. Let me first state that it was not my intention to attack your language. I didn't download or try the language to answer my q

by gizmo 17y ago

Thanks for the in-depth response. Let me first state that it was not my intention to attack your language. I didn't download or try the language to answer my questions (or read the rest of documentation) because I was just giving my opinion on the introductory guide, not on the language itself! In other words: I'm not saying your language sucks. I haven't formed an opinion on it yet. Regarding bignums, for my programming languages I've settled on imath ( http://spinning-yarns.org/michael/sw/imath/ http://spinning-yarns.org/michael/sw/imath/ ). It has a BSD compatible license, it's ANSI C, it's very fast and it has both bignum and bigdecimal support. It's also memory efficient for small numbers. I'm happy to report that I'm working on hobby projects and my own startup all the time. Having a blast. Next time, please don't assume I'm a sarcastic jerk.

nddrylliog 17y ago
Of course, it's just the pile of adjectives that eventually started to sound a little aggressive, but no offense taken. Also, I understand very well what you want to know as a language designer yourself, the difficulty resides in making the homepage friendly for beginners too! Let me know when we can do expertise-detection of the audience in the browser =) Thanks for the feedback anyway, we're always looking for ways to improve the docs, it's just that one has only 24h a day, as I'm sure you're well aware (especially with a startup on your hands.) IMath sounds awesome, someone suggested it earlier I think but we were worried about performance. I'll definitely give it a shot. I'd love to hear more about your programming language and the design choices you made, where can I get more information? EDIT: I'm sorry that you felt like I considered you a sarcastic jerk. It really wasn't my intention :/ it's just hard to tell the good people apart, you know? Again, apologies if I sounded harsh.

by gizmo 17y ago

nddrylliog 17y ago

Of course, it's just the pile of adjectives that eventually started to sound a little aggressive, but no offense taken. Also, I understand very well what you want to know as a language designer yourself, the difficulty resides in making the homepage friendly for beginners too! Let me know when we can do expertise-detection of the audience in the browser =) Thanks for the feedback anyway, we're always looking for ways to improve the docs, it's just that one has only 24h a day, as I'm sure you're well aware (especially with a startup on your hands.) IMath sounds awesome, someone suggested it earlier I think but we were worried about performance. I'll definitely give it a shot. I'd love to hear more about your programming language and the design choices you made, where can I get more information? EDIT: I'm sorry that you felt like I considered you a sarcastic jerk. It really wasn't my intention :/ it's just hard to tell the good people apart, you know? Again, apologies if I sounded harsh.