[Semi OT] The programming language wars

Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Mar 20 06:28:45 PDT 2015


On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 12:07:25 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 12:00:35 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
>> At end of the study, the groups using the Algol based syntax 
>> will deliver less bugs.
>
> I think language syntax design these days should include the 
> IDE. E.g. Dart's syntax is nothing special and not good at 
> preventing bugs in itself, but the Dart syntax works very well 
> when used with the Dart editor (based on Eclipse).
>
> These days it probably is a mistake to design a language syntax 
> without considering what kind of IDE design the language is 
> supposed to be used with.

Given that I have been an IDE fan since the Amiga days, I fully 
agree.

Every time I am on UNIX I feel like a time travel to the days of 
yore.

Thankfully the situation has improved a lot in the last decade.

--
Paulo




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