Re: Fwd: Dylan stuff
Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Bruce Hoult <[email protected]> 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. > This wouldn't be about getting rid of the infix syntax. It would be about having alternate readers and being able to have people write code in an alternate syntax, such as s-expressions. I'd like to see it possibly go further one day, but we need at least the basics first, and most importantly, someone interested in helping out with the actual work (like Mikel Evins). - Bruce _______________________________________________ hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers