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The designer's syntax decisions tell you a lot about their semantic decisions, which languages they take inspiration from, and the language's philosophy about t
by pxeger1 1y ago
The designer's syntax decisions tell you a lot about their semantic decisions, which languages they take inspiration from, and the language's philosophy about things like flexibility, correctness, and opinionatedness.
- jibal 1y agoOr not. Mostly not in this case.
- arethuza 1y agoI agree, in the case of Pony the interesting stuff is mentioned on this page: https://www.ponylang.io/discover/why-pony/ https://www.ponylang.io/discover/why-pony/ Syntax doesn't really come into it. Edit: I'm as fond of discussions of the design of programming language syntax as everyone else - just in this case the apparent novelty of Pony is at a more fundamental level.
- jibal 1y agoIndeed. I wonder how many people here even read the title of the post.