From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-02-23T04:21:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

On 22 Feb 2009, at 17:29, t4l wrote:
>> "There are no precedence rules applied to operators
>>
>> Looks like a cross between Ruby and INTERCAL. When  
>> 1.0+2.0/3.0+4.0=5.0,
>> that's not a good thing, and will confuse most mathemeticians to no  
>> end.
>
> My first association would have been Smalltalk. Anyway, I personally
> do not think the world needs yet another esoteric programming language
> unless that language introduces novel concepts unseen before.

You might as well say the world doesn't need another painting or  
concept album unless it passes the same criterion. Personally I love  
to see new languages even when I've no intention of using them and I  
wish the Nexus team all the best with their baby: who knows where it  
will lead?


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason