Bartosz about Chapel

[Danni Coy]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Caligo <iteronvexor at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>wrote:
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>> On 11/9/2011 2:45 PM, Danni Coy wrote:
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>>> how many keywords in D are needed because the preprocessor is built into
>>> the
>>> language itself?
>>>
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>> It's true, people forget about the preprocessor keywords when counting
>> C++ keywords.
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> You're right, I did forget about the preprocessor.  Besides the usual
> things in the header files, I always try to avoid macros.
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> There are about 20 directives, so that puts the keywords count for C++ to
> 101.  It's still fewer than D.  Does that mean D is more complex than C++?
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Do keywords like unittest make the language more or less complex? (to use
one that isn't in C++).



Python with 33, I think most would agree that is has a very consice
> grammer.
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> Being a dynamic language python would not have keywords for data types
right?
That has to be a large part of the difference. That said I do have to say
that Python does feel very concise.
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