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What exactly is about curly braces that implies outdatedness? Because some other old languages use it?
by makmanalp 16y ago
What exactly is about curly braces that implies outdatedness? Because some other old languages use it?
- jamesbritt 16y agoOr the reverse: RPG and FORTRAN had it, so in what way is significant white space a marker of modernity?
- riffraff 16y agoditto for begin/end
- keefe 16y agoseriously. + is sooooooooooo 1600s, we should restandardize with ʮ for addition so that + strictly applies to string concatenation...
- rnicholson 16y agoWell, I initially just saw it as 'just more of the same' -- and questioned why is that good? Don't know. Trying to find out. Amongst all these other improvements over other C family languages that I read, why not syntax too? Perhaps as alnayyir said above, I'm bikeshedding and shouldn't care so much... Again, I'm not well versed in programming language design, etc so my original comment (and probably this one) certainly has an amount of naïveté.