On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:47:39AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 06:40:37PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > Will have to disagree on that - part of the point of having such a > > thing would be to attract young developers, and while the CS crowd > > will be happy with LISP, anyone starting programming after the first > > .com bubble will probably be repulsed by non-Algol-like syntaxes. > > I suspect that you're right, though that disappoints me > somewhat. The only other language that I'm aware of that does a > reasonable compiles-to-C and has an algol-like syntax is Eiffel > (specifically SmartEiffel), but I haven't used it for years, > and don't know how it's travelling. It's also nowhere near as > dynamic and "fun" a programming experience, IMO.
Don't assume that the "CS crowd" are LISP or FP sycophants or that having to program in C is unattractive to new blood (a term I prefer over "young developers"). FWIW, I use Perl to prototype all sorts of algorithms and data structures - and most recently, Qore (I maintain the lang/qore port). But I don't believe either should be in base when it's so dead simple to install them from ports. Cheers, Brett > > Cheers, > > -- > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- B. Estrade <estr...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
