Because it makes it harder to learn. Like English. I don't know what that has to do with 'the establishment,' but it just makes things harder to learn.
It's not that I don't understand how much easier it would make things for folks familiar with other languages. I do. BUT... (1) It still makes the language harder to learn; (2) With Lingo history as an example, positively THE WORST option becomes defacto learning "standard'; (3) It opens the Pandora's Box to incorporating, mish-mash style, EVERY weird little favored syntactic element from EVERY other language which, well, see (1) above. (4) IF (some) people want to use the least intuitive, SOOO NOT natural-language-like syntaxes on the planet, by all means, please use them IN THOSE OTHER LANGUAGES! And, again, it's not that I don't get x = 5 (or whatever). But pretty soon we'll be looking at the most "modern" version of Lingo and it's not pretty. Or learnable by normal humans. Judy On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Scott Rossi wrote: > And supporting multiple assignment options, when other languages only > support one, is worse than "the establishment" how?... _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
