Phango - questions

[Walter Bright]

Don Clugston wrote:
> This isn't a criticism in any way (as an expat, I spend most of my life 
> feeling foreign!), just an observation. Most of the unfavourable 
> comments about the Tango style seem to be coming from C++ programmers, 
> and I think it's related to what they (we) are used to.

I think you've touched on a larger issue. Languages tend to have a look 
and feel, and if a programmer doesn't like a particular language, 
they'll tend to associate those bad feelings with that look and feel.

For example, in the 80's, the big divide was the C camp and the Pascal 
camp. The two groups were distinct, and they argued with each other a 
lot about which was better. Each had a distinct look and feel to their 
language (and their respective derivative languages).

I don't like Pascal. I've deliberately resisted imbuing D with elements 
that resemble Pascal's look and feel, not only because of my own 
preference, but because I know that the C camp does not like Pascal and 
if D adopts a Pascal look, they will be turned off from D. D is 
deliberately designed so that C/C++ users will quickly feel at home with it.