Andrei Alexandrescu: > IMHO what makes a language real hard to learn and use is the presence of > misdesigned features.
I don't agree, the situation is far more complex; good languages are the result of a fine balance between many opposed needs and constraints. > and cleaning up bad parts of the language, and now > all of a sudden you wax poetic about this and that and the other, few of > which have anything to do with the topic at hand. I was talking about language design in general, it was very in-topic in this thread. I try to help, but often I fail... I am sorry. > Next time I'll try a post "Let's keep lazy in the language" - that's > bound to get a better response. Good. Inverting points of view is often positive in discussions. It's one of the bases of dialectics. Bear hugs, bearophile
