On 11/21/2015 3:32 PM, deadalnix wrote:
Rather than having an aristocratic attitude toward these languages that we perceive as badly designed, we should be really asking ourselves the question "what did they get right ? Can we get it right too ?". Because we have signal here, that is telling us this thing really matter.
15 years ago, everyone loved to bash BASIC as a terrible language. I did too. But then I was looking at some Visual Basic code for a friend, and noticed something I had forgotten - it was really easy to manipulate strings. I was used to the horrible way of dealing with strings in C. I resolved that D had to have strings as nice as BASICs, and pretty much succeeded.
