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This just seems like an everything and the kitchen sink list. I am not convinced supporting every possible use case leads to an approachable/efficient language.
by ryanmolden 15y ago
This just seems like an everything and the kitchen sink list. I am not convinced supporting every possible use case leads to an approachable/efficient language. It seems akin to arguing my car should also be a boat and an airplane.
- jbrennan 15y agoI think it's OK because he said >(plus libraries) So some of this would belong as a language feature and other stuff would be in the standard library (is what I'm imagining at least). I'm a Cocoa guy, and when a lot of people rave about Objective-C, they usually are referring to niceties Cocoa provides. This is sort of what I was imagining as I read along.
- gbog 15y agoHow far is Python from this list? Macros are missing but the remaining list seem close to me.
- tomp 15y agoMath sucks a lot in Python 2.7: 3 / 2 == 1 Python 3 fixes that, thou, but still it uses floating point numbers instead of rational numbers.
- andrewflnr 15y agoIt's a heck of a mixed bag, but most of them are orthogonal and would coexist nicely, especially if libraries are allowed to seriously extend the syntax and type system. Seems hard but doable to me.