On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 00:14:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/8/2016 2:58 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 21:24:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
All useful computer languages are unprincipled and complex
due to a number of
factors:
I think this is a very dangerous assumption. And also not true.
Feel free to post a counterexample. All you need is one!
Scheme.
What is true is that it is difficult to gain traction if a
language does not
look like a copy of a pre-existing and fairly popular language.
I.e. Reason #2:
"what programmers perceive as logical and intuitive is often
neither logical nor intuitive to a computer"
I don't understand what you mean by this. If they are programmers
they should know the von Neumann architecture. I don't think that
is the same as having a strong preference for what they already
know...
