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Subject: Re: Oh look, another language (ceylon)
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:41:02 +0000
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On 17/11/2013 03:41, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>> http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.0/introduction/
>
> The type system looks very interesting!
>
> It's just a pity they based the syntax on C rather
> than something more enlightened. (Why do people
> keep doing that when they design languages?)
>

As a rule of thumb people don't like change?  This obviously assumes 
that language designers are people :)

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence