It's kind of a bummer to me that the one of the top comments here is about the syntax. I get that people have syntax preferences and that there's a certain level of "sniff" test that goes along with these things, but as a fan of programming languages I am always interested in the semantics. That is, I'm interested in what's different about this language and its combination of features and goals: http://clean.cs.ru.nl…
"It's kind of a bummer to me that the one of the top comments here is about the syntax. "I get that people have syntax preferences and that there's a certain level of "sniff" test that goes along with these things, but as a fan of programming languages I am always interested in the semantics." Well, as the syntax commenter, perhaps I'm a bit defensive but I feel like syntax is inherently an important part of what mak…
> To take it further, I'm pretty sure if you only absolutely only wanted features for manipulating things
I feel like lisp fits this bill to some degree. Being the AST itself it is "without syntax" to some degree. I wonder if you dislike Lisps? I can't really tell you what this means with regards to our discussion I'm just curious.
> And I, too, like programming language and I feel what makes a language as such cool/useful/etc is that you express a computer's action in a compact, elegant and clear fashion for one's fellow human beings.
Definitely! I would never suggest that we should entirely ignore how the syntax affects our ability to read the code but, to borrow the lisp example again, I don't care about typing lots of parenthesis if I'm otherwise effective.
Again, your earlier comment is not unfounded and I appreciate where you are coming from.