Re: Fwd: Dylan stuff
mikel evins <[email protected]>
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On Jan 11, 2013, at 6:35 AM, Bruce Hoult wrote: > I like the infix syntax that Dylan has and find it very comfortable to > use, but I'm not allergic to prefix. And most of the things that annoy > me about elisp and scheme syntax were fixed in the original Dylan > prefix syntax anyway.[1] > > The infix syntax was an attempt to appeal to Pascal and C programmers > and it didn't work. The success of JavaScript suggests that the main > problem was it was still too different looking to C. Well, and it > never had a killer app. Not to mention that its mother (Apple) was fickle and kicked it out the door at birth, and has steadfastly pretended not to know it ever since. _______________________________________________ hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers