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Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by sophacles »

ricardobeat wrote: post #21

Now you can take all the semi-colons from your javascript and re-use them elsewhere! Genius!

I believe this will revitalize the semicolon industry. There were serious sales shortages in the last few years with the rise of languages like ruby, python and even haskell, not needing this resource. In fact several major semicolon foundries were mothballed since the housing crash - the legalese markets were just not there any more, and lack of derivative generation really hurt the suppliers. The latest round of ASI abuse in javascript was hailed by some pundits as the nail in the coffin for the flagging industry, sending it to a niche role for legacy code and industrial/embedded systems support. With the release of this language, some analysts are suggesting a surge in semicolon production, and the commodities markets show q4 semicolon futures at the best they've been in 14 months. Expect to see a large push from advertisers in the form of articles like "why I like semicolon" and "can your language do this with only 5 characters?". Pessimists however are speculating that it is too little to late, and are advising shorts on semicolons in 6-10 hours, after the initial news leaves the front page. One pessimist says "This is just a pathetic showboat effort from a dying industry". Other suggest rumors of lobbyists pushing hard for the DoD to adopt this as the new standard language. More on this story as it develops.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by sophacles »

rmcclellan wrote: post #6

Seems like a nice companion to Whitespace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag...

Whitespace is too slow for big systems. The non-implicit nature of semicolon will really allow for prime-time server stacks. I do think though that whitespace will retain its market share on the front end.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by pfraze »

gavinlynch wrote: post #19

Hi guys, just wanted to tag along with this thread, because I'm a huge fan of Semicolon! One thing I've always found aggravating though... Those darn semicolons! So I'm creating CoffeeColon, because all these semi-colons are such a hassle. It's probably easiest if I just show you the language in action, rather than going through a long diatribe. So here's my hello world!: " " ^ Pretty elegant, right? let's try someth…

I prefer staying closer to the metal, but nice work anyway.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by unoti »

gavinlynch wrote: post #19

Hi guys, just wanted to tag along with this thread, because I'm a huge fan of Semicolon! One thing I've always found aggravating though... Those darn semicolons! So I'm creating CoffeeColon, because all these semi-colons are such a hassle. It's probably easiest if I just show you the language in action, rather than going through a long diatribe. So here's my hello world!: " " ^ Pretty elegant, right? let's try someth…

Yeah, but how in the world can you debug it?

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by davesims »

gavinlynch wrote: post #19

Hi guys, just wanted to tag along with this thread, because I'm a huge fan of Semicolon! One thing I've always found aggravating though... Those darn semicolons! So I'm creating CoffeeColon, because all these semi-colons are such a hassle. It's probably easiest if I just show you the language in action, rather than going through a long diatribe. So here's my hello world!: " " ^ Pretty elegant, right? let's try someth…

Thanks for this! One question -- is " " still global by default or do I still have to declare " " to make " " local?
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