On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 22:08:00 UTC, growler wrote:
On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 21:26:50 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 15 September 2013 21:12, Nick Sabalausky
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:03:04 -0300
Ary Borenszweig <[email protected]> wrote:
On 9/13/13 7:51 PM, Justin Whear wrote:
> Just ran across this: http://www.zimbu.org/
> A language by Bram Moolenaar (original author and
> maintainer of
> vim). The "Why Zimbu?" section on the right side of the
> homepage has
> comparisons to other languages. D is the last comparison,
> suggesting that it meets all the other qualifications but
> fails on
> "It has to run on most systems, anything with a C
> compiler, so D is
> out."
>
> Note: I'm fine with D not running absolutely everywhere, I
> only
> write it on linux for linux.
>
I DON'T KNOW why, but I find it SOMEHOW hard or annoying TO
READ...
Funny Id noticed THE same thing too } Which IS strange lack OF
punctuation normally makes things easier TO read doesnt it }
But I imagine you'd probably get used to those things pretty
quicky,
though. It's just syntax, after all. But holding SHIFT all
the time may
be harder to get used to. I've done plenty of all-caps
keywords back in
my BASIC days, and I can't say I miss it - or that I find it
in any way
easier to read.
I don't like the idea of language-enforced style. I do
understand the
rationale, but to me it's just minutia that has no business
being
nanny-supervised.
Zimbu's actually been around for quite some time now. I first
came
across it several years ago when trying to find a modern
native systems
language that wasn't C/C++. I moved on in favor of D because
Zumba
seemed to be in much more of an early experimental state.
Looks
like it's further along now, but not as much as I would have
guessed.
Maybe all the attention on D/Rust/Go already sucked up most
potential
contributors?
Well, ZImbu gets a -42 out of 10 for code readability and
maintainability. :-)
https://code.google.com/p/zimbu/source/browse/zimbu2c.c
looks like something f2c would spew out...and well, line 1, 2,
& 3 explain it:
/*
* Generated from Zimbu file zimbu2c.zu
*/
Vim sources are actually quite readable...considering it's old
greybeard C:
https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/src/fold.c
Sorry, hit the send too soon...trying a new terminal bases
browser, purely for masochist reasons and only just figured out
how to go back :-)
I was going to say that C output shown there could be auto
formatted easily enough, but the Zimbu syntax is a bit too ugly
for my liking. Looks like CERN smashed C and COBOL particles
together to release a Zimbu.
