why ; ?

Simen Kjaeraas simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Thu May 15 03:12:15 PDT 2008


On Thu, 15 May 2008 00:56:49 +0200, Yigal Chripun <yigal100 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Joel C. Salomon wrote:
>  > Yigal Chripun wrote:
>>> personally I don't understand why we still use text files to represent
>>> code. that's just so silly. data in a computer is stored in binary form
>>> not text, so you don't get to see your "real" code anyway, but rather a
>>> specific interpretation of it. and this encoding is very old and very
>>> simplistic. this is identical to word for example only difference is  
>>> the
>>> format used by word is a different binary encoding.
>>
>>  Bjarne Stroustrup had some hopes that the particular textual form of
>> C++ he’d developed could be replaced with other forms that were
>> conceptually identical but different syntactically. Turns out that isn’t
>> quite so doable. (Though when D exposes the syntax-tree form it’s a step
>> in that direction.)
>>
>> —Joel
>
> on the contrary, I've seen an article online of two people that did
> exactly that. they defined an alternative syntax for C++ which is both
> consistent and preserves the semantics of c++. it was their Thesis or
> something like that. just stumbled on it via google.

Link?



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