Phango - questions

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Don Clugston wrote:

> Kris wrote:
>> "Don Clugston" <dac at nospam.com.au> wrote in message
>> 
>>> Kris -
>>> I think there's a legitimate concern here which you've been ignoring. It
>>> would be helpful to give some background as to why Tango uses the
>>> conventions it does. And my guess is that the primary reason Tango uses
>>> the conventions it does, is that you have a Java background!
>> 
>> Sure I'm familiar with Java, Don. But I'm also familiar with Simula,
>> Pascal, Modula, Ada, C#, etc. To claim that Tango is driven by a Java
>> background is being more than a tad superficial :)
> 
> Perhaps it's not Java at all, but rather "curly brace languages other than
> C/C++". For a C++ programmer, the Tango style looks very foreign, and (to
> me, a non-Java programmer) feels like Java. And the Phobos style feels
> much more familiar. But I also think (as a non-C# programmer) that C# also
> looks similar to Java (and similarly foreign).
> 
> This isn't a criticism in any way (as an expat, I spend most of my life
> feeling foreign!), just an observation. Most of the unfavourable comments
> about the Tango style seem to be coming from C++ programmers, and I think
> it's related to what they (we) are used to.

I used to be a C++ programmer, and based on the styles I used then (not
invented by me, btw), would end up very close to what Tango has now.

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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