Em 19/04/2010 14:21, Igor Stasenko < [email protected] > escreveu: > On 19 April 2010 19:40, Michael Haupt wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Igor Stasenko 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. > > > I agree. all languages having bright and dark sides. And people > free to choose what they like (or not). > I wonder, how a computer languages would look like for europeans, > if they are first were invented by Chinese or Japanes cultures. ( > you know, they would use glyphs in it ;).
I could not be totally positive on this, but I think the better proxy we have for that is APL which used some special symbols and even needed a special keyboard for it! -- Cesar Rabak _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
