Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

[Walter Bright]

On 8/1/2013 8:01 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> Simple example, why would I want to type "node->next" when I could just type
> "node.next".

The real problem with node->next as opposed to node.next is if node changes from 
being a reference type to being a value type - then you've got to edit every 
dang use of it.

C++ also uses :: instead of .