Complexity and starting over on the JVM
Blake
blake at kingdomrpg.com
Tue Feb 5 03:16:01 UTC 2008
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:09:55 -0800, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> I checked the GFSM and His Noodliness is quoted as exhorting the massed
> faithful to eschew underscores since they are not as tasty as overscores
> (and why don't have overscores? eh?) and thus worthless in His Tentacled
> Eyes
Oh, a heathen, eh?
>> tim further wrote: "Similarly I'd use ordinary ^ for return on the
>> keyboard."
>>
>> Isn't that the way it works now?
> Well yes but I'd have it displayed as the rinky-dink curvy arrow. Just
> Because.
So, it's not enough for you to succeed. Everyone else must fail?
>> I'm pro-left-arrow because it is completely unambiguous. I'm a long
>> time Pascal-er (sticks tongue out at Tim)
>
> I'm a long time ago Pascalier and in fact wrote one of the early solid
> modellers in it. All I can say is yeuuuuuuch. Pascal is about as good an
> idea as java, but less popular.
Object Pascal is probably the best of the static retrofitted-to-object
languages. (OK, admittedly low bar.)
>> and truth is, when you use the colon-equal for assign, you end up
>> mistakenly forgetting the colon.
>
> And we all know that doctor's remind us not to forget our colons. At
> least one friend of mine has died from that.
I had a friend who forgot and ended up with a semi-colon. Which is also
not good.
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