On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:45, Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> wrote: > > Comparatively, Vimscript is a mess! > > I'll bite. > > One of the most important aspects of a programming or scripting language > is that it's easy to read back. Only then can one figure out what it's > doing exactly and easily spot mistakes. Both Perl and Lisp fail > miserably on this aspect. > > Unfortunately, programmers are proud of creating something that other > people have a hard time figuring out what it does. It's like a priest > talking latin, it sets them apart from the crowd.
Innocent question incoming: Wouldn't it be a good idea to write a binding of Vimscript in, say, Python or Lua or any other more widely spread language and ship it with vim? - Vincent -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
