DConf 2013 keynote

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun May 12 11:09:59 PDT 2013


On 5/12/2013 2:32 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 08:53:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 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.
>
> What is presented to the user isn't a text format anymore.

I think that is irrelevant to my point. A language doesn't have to be text based.


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