(Sorry for the previous empty message) Having worked a lot with C#, my experience was that very very few people used the C# 2.0 delegate syntax and now a large portion of the community learned and uses the C# 3.0 syntax. Syntax matters.
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Nathan Stott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Bob Nystrom <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:46 AM, David Griffiths <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> For all the talk about what's "usable" and "readable", I haven't seen much >>> mention of empirical testing done with ordinary people... (My sincere >>> apologies if there's some usability test lab for middlingly intelligent >>> JavaScripters that I'm not aware of). >> >> That data is out there in the context of C#. C# 2.0 used this syntax for >> local functions: >> delegate(int x, int y) { return x + y; } >> In C# 3.0, they added: >> (x, y) => x + y >> Aside from the type annotations, those almost perfectly mirror the current >> discussion for JS. A motivated person could do some archeology of open >> source code to find out how much each is being used. I was doing a lot of C# >> when 3.0 came out and watched a number of people learn the new syntax. It >> generally went like: >> 1. Lambdas? Never heard of them. >> 2. What is this weird arrow thing? I don't like it. >> 3. Eh, I kind of understand what's going on, but it seems fishy. >> 4. Hey this is pretty terse. >> 5. OMG, working with collections is a breeze now! I just chained five maps >> and filters! >> 6. How did I ever live without this? >> - bob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> >> > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
