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On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:39:02 +0100
Emil Madsen <sovende at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 November 2010 21:40, Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail>wrote:
> 
> > On 31/10/2010 02:47, bearophile wrote:
> >
> >> Walter:
> >>
> >>  You post lists of features every day.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I hate wasting your time, so please ignore my posts you aren't interested
> >> in. I write those things because I like to think and discuss about new ways
> >> to explain semantics to computers. Most of those things are for discussion,
> >> not for inclusion in D2 (few of them may be included in D3, in the future).
> >>
> >>
> > And how does Walter (or anyone else for that matter), determine if they are
> > interested in your posts or not (or anyone else's for that matter) without
> > reading them first?
> > This is often the case for me regarding posts and threads that discuss
> > changes or additions to language features. In these kinds of threads the
> > title alone is very little indication of the quality or interest of the
> > thread.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
> >
> 
> I must say; I think bearophile usually brings up some good issues, and
> things to discuss, and I do like reading his posts. - About not being
> interrested in reading his posts, really if you dont wanna read posts, why
> are you on a mailing list? - if its the amount thats the issue, then find
> some community with low activity instead >.<'.
> 
> And yea, bearophile brings up a lot of nice features, and Walter would never
> have a chance to implement all of them himself, which might be good, if
> everything bearophile suggests got into the language, we would have this
> major language noone would ever be able to learn, nor use. However, if we
> succeed in implementing the best ideas I do think we'll end up with a superb
> output, however I do think we need to discuss a lot of issues and features,
> and thats why I love bearophiles postings, simply because it gives the
> community a lot to discuss.
> 
> Just my opinion. - But I do think discussing a lot of features, even the
> ones not really related, will help out the language in the end.
> 

I completely share these views. +++ the last sentence. (PL design in general suffers from lack of wide view [I do _not_ mean narrow-mindness, but maybe lack of curiosity, yes ;-)], esp from reproducing misfeatures from the main designer's best known PL language or paradigm. But it's a long and hard task to "un-learn" & re-open one's mental eyes. Design should be choosing from awareness of alternatives, else it's "eyes wide shut"-reproduction.)


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