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We need to encourage people to get over their fear of syntax which is not C-like. I find much more pain in C-like syntax being jammed onto new languages than n
by legooolas 17y ago
We need to encourage people to get over their fear of syntax which is not C-like. I find much more pain in C-like syntax being jammed onto new languages than new languages daring to be different (and possibly coming up trumps, or being a disaster, but it's more interesting if they're different and perhaps better in some ways, IMHO).
- davidw 17y agoSure, but perhaps that is not a battle this particular group wants to fight. BTW, Erlang's syntax has some annoyances that go beyond just not being C. "Ant turd tokens", for instance. Nothing that's going to stop a competent developer, of course.
- legooolas 17y agoPerhaps the "competent developer" is not what they are aiming at, but the masses. In fact, this would explain a lot of languages using C-like syntax if it were true (not to say that those which do are any worse/better than those which do not, he said back-pedalling :).
- mononcqc 17y agoI've never got the "And turd tokens" thing after using the language for a few days. It pretty much all makes sense to me. I've already posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=837217 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=837217 to express my opinion on that though, if you want to read it.
- davidw 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=837462 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=837462 - the answer to your post - sums up nicely why they are annoying: they make it so that one line of code is often not interchangeable with the next, so when you refactor or cut and paste, you have to go fiddle with line endings.