On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:02:02PM -0500, Stephen Haberman wrote:
> I went through a phase of wanting a concise/magical syntax, but realized
> the same thing: in most hands, the code will end up looking more like
> Perl than Java.

That's not a bad thing.

Take English.  You probably read it fairly well.  Now, take Standard
English[1].  All of a sudden, that short, descriptive paragraph becomes two
or three times as long.

Call a spade a spade, not a wooden-metal hybrid gardening implement.

-Dom

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_English

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