On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 08:53:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/12/2013 1:42 AM, deadalnix wrote:
On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 08:40:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/11/2013 10:57 PM, deadalnix wrote:
Stupid inexpressive language are easier to write tools for,
this is the very
reason why java have such a great tooling.
You run the risk of having a write-only language if the
expressivity is in the
tools rather than the language.
Tools don't have to show you what is in the text file. That is
the beauty of it.
IntelliJ for instance, don't show java source code as it is in
the source.
I.e. you've invented another language that has Java as its
output so the user never sees Java because Java is not
presentable to users.
What is presented to the user isn't a text format anymore.
