Hello,

I thought the whole problem with Java when I first started looking at 
it was that they had copied the C/C++ syntax!  'Hey, let's let all 
those C/C++ people get easy access to our new language by letting 
them think they are using C/C++!'  Who said that?  The marketing 
department?  Why not just let them use C/C++?

If you copy the syntax, you'll be dragged into copying the semantics as well:

int i;

i = 1;

if (i && a == b) { do some code }


And it's a big slide down hill from there...


One of the great things I love about Smalltalk is its simplicity of syntax.


Karl