Hi, On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote: > I am serious. If you can't learn the simplest syntax rules, you can't > learn anything else.
but Syntax, dearest Igor, is key! And Note The Capital "S"! You see, Lisp clearly sucks because it has too many brackets. Python and Haskell are most unfavourable because they have whitespace with semantics. Pascal, Modula-2, and Ada are way too verbose. Forth organises programs in pages - now *that* is bureaucratic and old-fashioned, aye? Smalltalk obviously doesn't know how to compute with natural numbers properly. Smalltalk, Self, and Io share the indignity of not even having proper keywords. Java, Scala, C, and C++ ... don't even get me started, man: curly braces are sooooo 80s. Erlang does not end sentences with an exclamation mark, it puts it in their midst - how messy, bah. In Prolog, you have to write your own rules, which makes it seem as if the language didn't have any: yuck! If you consider all these points wisely, you will inevitably come to the conclusion that the only language with a proper, clear, civilised, and tidy syntax out there is brainfuck. Some argue it's unacceptable due to its name, but that is not a syntactical argument and hence invalid. I win. Best, Michael _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
