Comment by nnq

13 years ago

When the first thing I read about a language it on it's description page is "compiles to X" or "runs on Y", this is definitely a sign that the language ha NOTHING INTERESTING TO OFFER whatsoever. Adding insult to injury, underneath is a bulletted list of language features that any language worth it's salt has them! And please... "Named constructors"... WTF?!

(If someone wants to be mean, he could simply compare this feature-wise with one of the Scheme dialects that compile to C...)

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jasim  13 years ago

Not every language needs to be one of those that changes the way we think about programming. It is perfectly fine to experiment on mundane languages by adding mundane features. Incremental improvement is a good thing and it is too early to just write off this because it seems to be un-interesting.

I'm sure this project was extremely interesting to the author - maybe from a different perspective than yours.

> (If someone wants to be mean, he could simply compare this feature-wise with one of the Scheme dialects that compile to C...)

I'm not being mean here, but if someone really wanted to be..

  • njharman  13 years ago

    > not every languages needs to change ... way we think about programming. > I'm sure this project was extremely interesting to the author

    No, but neither does(should) every new language be posted and upvoted to HN.

    • Xcelerate  13 years ago

      If it's upvoted, then the HN crowd finds the language interesting. If not, then it will fade away like every other article that doesn't get votes does.

  • njharman  13 years ago

    > not every languages needs to change ... way we think about programming. > I'm sure this project was extremely interesting to the author

    No, but neither does(should) every new language be posted and upvoted to HN.