Re: [scala-language] The cake’s problem, dotty des ign and the approach to modularity.

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 5:42 PM Shelby <[email protected]> wrote:

> <rant>Of the many things I hate about OCaml's syntax is that it does
> everything snobbishly different from C, C++, Java heritage of the
> mainstream, e.g. semicolons as separator just afaik because they wanted to
> use commas for tuples and wanted to allow tuples to be written with or w/o
> enclosing parens, (* comments *), 2. +. 1., and other gnarly "symbol soup"
> bewilderment. Perhaps that's all necessary to make global type inference
> work seamlessly.</rant>
>
>
ML came out in the early 1970s and would have been well formed by the time
that C escaped from Bell Labs. Even then, until Java and Javascript came
along, C syntax was confined to C and its dialects and Awk. It seems a
little silly to call a language snobbish for not throwing away 20 years of
tradition when Java came out and not changing syntax to match an entirely
alien language.

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