Beta 2.079.0
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Thu Feb 22 17:44:41 UTC 2018
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 02:06:20AM +0000, psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 16:58:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 02:46:56PM +0000, psychoticRabbit via
> > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...]
> > > Syntax is EVERYTHING. It can make or break a language.
> >
> > And semantics doesn't matter.
> >
> > :-D
[...]
> assert("easy on the eyes" == "easy on the brain");
Therein lies the rub: "easy on the eyes" is subjective. Meaning that
reasonable people will disagree on what exactly constitutes "easy on the
eyes". I'm pretty sure a Lisp geek would consider Lisp as very easy to
read, and everything else as an eyesore. Does that mean everyone should
use Lisp syntax to the exclusion of all else? I hope not.
> wtf! I get an assertion failure??
See, even dmd agrees with me. :-D
> programming languages are just dumb tools to write syntax ;-)
In Soviet Russia, programming languages write your syntax for you!
> the semantics are in a different domain.
Meaning, semantics are outside the domain of programming languages?
That's ... an intriguing idea. I would like to subscribe to your
newsletter. :-D
T
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