Re: Friendlier syntax

Tamas Papp escreveu:
Michael Bohn <spaceodyssey@xxxxxx> writes:

Can anybody make a statistic how often this topic comes up in this
usegroup! (and correlates to user = newbie)

I wonder why Lisp is prone to this kind of suggestions. C, Fortran

You have not seen some "{algol.pascal} addicts" who created some include files to replace the "{" by "begin" and "}" by "end", etc. in C, have you!?

Java and their ilk don't elicit the "Whoa! New language! Let's
change its syntax!" reaction.

For Java, the explanation is slightly simpler: people are still strugling to get it right!

--
Cesar Rabak
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