Zimbu

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On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 21:26:50 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 15 September 2013 21:12, Nick Sabalausky
> <SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:03:04 -0300
>> Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/13/13 7:51 PM, Justin Whear wrote:
>>> > Just ran across this: http://www.zimbu.org/
>>> > A language by Bram Moolenaar (original author and 
>>> > maintainer of
>>> > vim). The "Why Zimbu?" section on the right side of the 
>>> > homepage has
>>> > comparisons to other languages.  D is the last comparison,
>>> > suggesting that it meets all the other qualifications but 
>>> > fails on
>>> > "It has to run on most systems, anything with a C compiler, 
>>> > so D is
>>> > out."
>>> >
>>> > Note: I'm fine with D not running absolutely everywhere, I 
>>> > only
>>> > write it on linux for linux.
>>> >
>>>
>>> I DON'T KNOW why, but I find it SOMEHOW hard or annoying TO 
>>> READ...
>>
>> Funny Id noticed THE same thing too } Which IS strange lack OF
>> punctuation normally makes things easier TO read doesnt it }
>>
>> But I imagine you'd probably get used to those things pretty 
>> quicky,
>> though. It's just syntax, after all. But holding SHIFT all the 
>> time may
>> be harder to get used to. I've done plenty of all-caps 
>> keywords back in
>> my BASIC days, and I can't say I miss it - or that I find it 
>> in any way
>> easier to read.
>>
>> I don't like the idea of language-enforced style. I do 
>> understand the
>> rationale, but to me it's just minutia that has no business 
>> being
>> nanny-supervised.
>>
>> Zimbu's actually been around for quite some time now. I first 
>> came
>> across it several years ago when trying to find a modern 
>> native systems
>> language that wasn't C/C++. I moved on in favor of D because 
>> Zumba
>> seemed to be in much more of an early experimental state. Looks
>> like it's further along now, but not as much as I would have 
>> guessed.
>> Maybe all the attention on D/Rust/Go already sucked up most 
>> potential
>> contributors?
>>
>
> Well, ZImbu gets a -42 out of 10 for code readability and 
> maintainability. :-)
>
> https://code.google.com/p/zimbu/source/browse/zimbu2c.c

looks like something f2c would spew out...and well, line 1, 2, & 
3 explain it:

/*
  * Generated from Zimbu file zimbu2c.zu
  */


Vim sources are actually quite readable...considering it's old 
greybeard C:
https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/src/fold.c