From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T22:18:24+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Nice

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:50:54PM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
> http://nice.sourceforge.net
> 
> Very neat language I discovered recently - similar in feel and spirit if
> not in every specific to Ruby, and a solution to making Java programming
> fun and productive that doesn't involve embedding an interpreter.

Interesting.  I think this is the right approach to take when creating a
language (make it easy to integrate with code from an already popular
language).  This is exactly how C++ got its start, and I suspect is the
only way to create a successor to either C++ or Java.

One question: what is the purpose of the '@' character in an argument
list, e.g.:

  display(p@Person) 
  { 
    return p.name + " (age=" + p.age + ")"; 
  } 

And how does it differ from the C-style argument lists:

  void main(String[] args)
  {
    System.out.println("Hello, world!");
  }

Paul