FlowerScirpt teaser

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BLS Wrote:

> Alexander Panek schrieb:
> > Well, even the fact that it seems to use the dollar sign as variable 
> > prefix makes me go puke. Really. There are so many good languages out 
> > there, why do you need create a new, incompatible and most probably 
> > unsupported one? Rather use MiniD, Ruby, Python, or what not else, as 
> > they are actively developed and not just a small hack to get some more 
> > performance for a website.
> > 
> IMO Ruby is not an option because 1) Ruby is too slow. 2) Ruby is not 
> really extendable from D.
> Speed matters!
> I agree, the dollar sign is ugly. I guess it exists to speed up parsing.
> Bjoern

No! Dollar sign is one of the worst features of PHP IMO and I would never do that. The dollar sign is for compatibility with JavaScript. Is is NOT required it is just a valid identifier character and it is there because I wrote the benchmark in php first and copied it to flowerscript :)