Alternative /hipster/ syntaxes for D

[deadalnix]

Le 29/03/2012 13:22, Iain Buclaw a écrit :
> On 29 March 2012 11:57, ezdiy<eezdiy at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Thursday, 29 March 2012 at 10:49:45 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 29/03/2012 11:47, ezdiy a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> D syntax being C-ish one is great for oldschool class of programmers
>>>> coming C/C++/Java/C# backgrounds, and although it's quite conscise one
>>>> compared to, eg. javas, it's still much on the overly verbose side for
>>>> some people (ie. at least for me :)
>>>>
>>>> The question is, how one would go around to successfully implement an
>>>> alternative modern syntax to "fix" this. Are there some attempts out
>>>> there?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This isn't a problem. Compare how successful
>>> C/C++/Java/C#/PHP/Javascript/Go/Objective-C/ActionScript are compared to
>>> languages with « quite concise » syntax. This is a no match.
>>>
>>> This style has proven to be readable, convenient and many programmers are
>>> used to it. If you want to change that, you don't only need to prove that
>>> another syntax is better, but also that it is THAT MUCH BETTER that changing
>>> what everybody is used worth it. This sounds difficult to me.
>>
>>
>> I'm not here to start flame about old vs new, use irc for that :)
>>
>> Speaking to the point: Delight seems as a nice concept, however it's awfully
>> implemented (hack of 3years outdated gdc). Such hacks *must* be implemented
>> as code translators for reasons you've cited. Ie i can just generate code
>> for people who refuse to learn something new.
>
> Sounds like literate programming to me.
>

And that isn't really « new ».