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Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.dylan
From: Bruce Hoult <br...@hoult.org>
Date: 2000/06/30
Subject: Re: C# is not Dylan (was: Re: C# : The new language from M$)
In article <kpamlscdjl89ihfhsdk3d4rinoa1hji...@4ax.com>, Jason Trenouth
<ja...@harlequin.com> wrote: I suspect that the guys tasked with coming up with the infix syntax were > Well, Dylan really isn't C-ish syntax. No braces (except in macro > definitions), no casting, postfix type declarations, and very > different (Lisp/Scheme-like) identifier conventions. Unfortunately, > from the point of view of promulgating the language, Dylan's syntax > looks very alien to many C programmers. concerned that if it looked *too* C-like then people would expect it to have C semantics. This was, of course, in the days before Java, Perl, and C#. -- Bruce You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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