From: Earl Grieda Date: 2005-04-28T02:39:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Re ANN: A new scripting language Tao 0.9.0 beta released! "Donal K. Fellows" wrote in message news:d4nmjp$2eb1$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk... > Fu Limin wrote: > > Honest saying, I didn't intend to draw people from other languages, I > > was just trying to implement a language in a way that I think it > > should be, and provide people another option. Of course, there will > > be some features in Tao will not be available in PHP, e.g., built-in > > types for numerical computation, as pointed out by Ara.T.Howard. > > In what ways is your language distinctive? How does developing your own > language (as opposed to making stronger one of the languages whose > newsgroups you've posted to) make the sum of human experience richer? > And do any of these observations/questions below help you explain these > larger matters? :^) > Yes, my personal opinion is we need less languages, not more. This industry has developed a Tower of Babel and it is hindering us in productivity.