On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > On 09/11/2013 22:58, Chris Angelico wrote: >> > >> > * Some languages are just fundamentally bad. I do not recommend ever >> > writing production code in Whitespace, Ook, or Piet. > > One of the worst coding experiences I ever had was trying to build an > app for a Roku media player. They have a home-grown language called > BrightScript. Barf.
And this is exactly why I was so strongly against the notion of developing an in-house scripting language. It may be a lot of work to evaluate Lua, Python, JavaScript, and whatever others we wanted to try, but it's a *lot* less work than making a new language that actually is worth using. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
