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Magic overdose. Compare with Go, where you can easily read the whole spec and keep the whole language in your head: http://golang.org/ref/spec http://golang.or
by luriel 14y ago
Magic overdose.
Compare with Go, where you can easily read the whole spec and keep the whole language in your head: http://golang.org/ref/spec http://golang.org/ref/spec
- masklinn 14y agoI would not consider a 62 pages spec possible to "keep in your head", let alone easily. The "The Smalltalk Language" section of the last ANSI Smalltalk draft is a more reasonable 28 pages.
- deafbybeheading 14y agoGo is an excellent contrast. Not only is the syntax spartan, but--especially if you include the built-in formatter gofmt--it has a fascist insistence on a uniform coding style. I don't agree with all its stylistic decisions, but I'd rather live with them and have consistency than run into corner cases and gotchas.