retard wrote:
Regarding Smalltalk, its syntax is weird for people that come from
C/C++
I claim that currently this is the main reason for people not adopting
Smalltalk or any other language. Even if smalltalk was 50% faster than C+
+ and 100% safer, there would be legions of morons how still want to
stick with C++ or C when building end-user GUI applications. Mainstream
programmers don't want to use their brain - they're happy with the C
family syntax and refuse to learn any other syntax. After all, with the
common syntax you can more or less easily use c,c++,c#,d,java,scala,php,
and many less known languages. Most mainstream programmers also only know
the parts of these languages that they all share - a nice imperative
dialect which is very handy for writing ugly, buggy, and badly performing
business code.
Syntax is just syntax, not semantics, and I'm not sure there's any
particular reason why Smalltalk could not use curly brace syntax. If I
was the Smalltalk creator, and syntax was the barrier to adopting it,
I'd change the syntax.
D deliberately uses the C/C++/Java style syntax because that is the most
popular and well known.
