On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: >> >> http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.0/introduction/ > > > The type system looks very interesting! > > It's just a pity they based the syntax on C rather > than something more enlightened. (Why do people > keep doing that when they design languages?)
Because in many ways it's an excellent syntactic structure, and - more importantly - it's one that's familiar to a huge number of programmers. That's pretty valuable. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
