election details *PLEASE READ*

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Feb 21 08:40:18 UTC 2007


Todd Blanchard wrote:
> I'm in favor of that - but honestly, there hasn't been a lot worth 
> stealing from the mainstream.

Really? Namespaces? Modules? Interfaces? Every even remotely mainstream 
language I am aware about has at least two out of these three - you 
don't find those worthwhile?

> So there is lots of great stuff to steal - but not much of it from the 
> mainstream languages - they mostly seem to ape the last generation and 
> then take a little lunge in the direction of Smalltalk.

I must admit I'm not particularly impressed with that overall assessment.

Cheers,
   - Andreas




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