DConf 2013 keynote

[Walter Bright]

On 5/12/2013 1:42 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 08:40:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/11/2013 10:57 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> Stupid inexpressive language are easier to write tools for, this is the very
>>> reason why java have such a great tooling.
>>
>> You run the risk of having a write-only language if the expressivity is in the
>> tools rather than the language.
>
> Tools don't have to show you what is in the text file. That is the beauty of it.
> IntelliJ for instance, don't show java source code as it is in the source.

I.e. you've invented another language that has Java as its output so the user 
never sees Java because Java is not presentable to users.