Subject: Re: Scripting with Visual Basic Clone
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 28 2000 - 23:53:29 CDT
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> Could you people talk BASIC fans and make them write BASIC plugin
> to GUILE ??? (GUILE is language independent)
>
*If* we use Guile (a big if) then I suspect a BASIC plugin could be
written.
> This isn't true Scheme is easy to learn.
> For example, adding 2 + 2
> People tend to think it is 2 + 2, not + 2 2 nor 2 2 +.
> There are of course more such problems.
>
> I think that for most people who already know some programming
> easy-to-learn = similar-to-C
> because 99% people knowing any programming language know some
> C-like programming language (c, perl, c++, objc, delphi, java, even python)
>
First, I find the claim that Pascal, Python, Perl and C are all similar
languages strange. They are all similar in that they are all primarily
procedural languages, but they differ widely otherwise.
> Please find (or invent - it's FREE-software world, everyone is free to create
> a new language) a language with minimum syntax and almost-no silly
> characters. Then we will start Replacement-For-VBasic Crusade. :-)
> ( this paragraph is real, there is real lack of such language,
> and inventing languages is easier now that any time before )
>
Scheme has almost no syntax (see next message).
Scheme has only one "silly character": the parenthesis.
And that character makes programming *easier* in many cases.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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