23 Oct
2006
23 Oct
'06
12:56 p.m.
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Cale Gibbard wrote:
Of course I disagree with this course for all the reasons I stated above. The whole point of having high level programming languages is so that you can put more work into the tools so that the end user doesn't have to work as hard. One shouldn't ask "What's easiest to parse?" but "What's easiest to read and write?".
A good many tools can, of course, get by on a reversible desugaring. It seems to me that this'd be a sensible candidate for a library. -- flippa@flippac.org 'In Ankh-Morpork even the shit have a street to itself... Truly this is a land of opportunity.' - Detritus, Men at Arms