| > My account is throttled by Hacker News moderators. Seems most accounts are throttled 2posts per hour. Mine included. > Edit (for Ygg2): What you think is superficial is an entire portion of the art of software development. And your usage of FUD is incorrect. There is no art in programming language design. Art can be defined as something meant to exist solely for its own sake. That's not what PL is. It's just the thing that makes up a program. There is a lot of creativity and application involved in programming language design. You can design works of art with a language. But on its own I would have trouble seeing it as art. But what you mean by art is probably aesthetic i.e. how beautiful is something to look at. When it down comes to userbase it's just a popularity contest. Braces, Parens, keyword or indent? It makes very little difference. Yet people are vocal about their pet syntax being "The one true" syntax to rule them all. It's like quarreling over whether to stir cement clockwise or counterclockwise. I'm of the Douglas Crockford school of language design. Languages are meant to facilitate transfer of programming ideas while minimizing errors. If your syntax isn't minimizing errors I frankly don't give a damn. Give me a cement that lasts a thousand years, not one with that I need to worry which way I mix. As for FUD, I stand by that statement. Saying Rust is uglier than C++ a language known for its near-universally disliked syntax definitely strikes me sowing fear aimed at newcommers. |