From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zznmeb@...>
Date: 2009-02-23T12:12:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

Jason Roelofs wrote:
> And no operator precedence? The reason this is rarely seen is because
> it's *wrong*. 1 + 2 / 4 is ALWAYS 3. That's math. Building a language
> that calculates this expression to 3/4 is a bug and will cause nothing
> but rampant confusion and frustration.

APL\360 was amazingly popular and it had no operator precedence either.
However, the default was right-to-left, not left-to-right as Nexus has
chosen.

But yeah, who the heck needs another language that's poorly thought out,
when Factor, Joy, Eiffel, Dylan, and dozens of other well-thought-out
languages burst on the scene and drifted into oblivion? And why not
Fortress?

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.