From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-08-22T06:52:34+09:00
Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 05:53:37AM +0900, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
> 5) Syntax
> The syntax should be easy, clean, short and regular (something like Ruby
> :)) so that we spend less time coding.
...
> In particular, does Haskell even satisfy all the criteria above?  IMHO,
> Tcl, Perl, Python, and Ruby satisfy 1) to 5), and I have used them all.

If you think Perl's syntax is "easy, clean, short and regular" just
about anything will meet (5)... :-)

The criteria you give are IMHO appropriate to choose a language to
implement things on, but I believe the "learn one language a year" rule
is more about _learning_ (broadening views, understanding other ways to
make the same stuff, better design...) than about using it for critical
tasks.

I'm looking forward to learning Lisp (or a dialect such as Scheme),
Smalltalk (Squeak?) and something of the ML family, but I don't think I
will code much in Lisp (anyway, that's not my business :-)

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