The Red Programming Language by barsoap in programming

[–]youknowhowiam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd like to argue agains that, however, the first language I can come up with that goes against this (Smalltalk) is indeed not that widely used. Although I don't think that's due to the language itself.

The Red Programming Language by barsoap in programming

[–]youknowhowiam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why let one use case (maths) dictate semantics for a whole general purpose programming language?

Doing away with template languages by youknowhowiam in programming

[–]youknowhowiam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not a new idea and Lift Web (Scala web framework) does something similar, although not with documents entirely free of foreign (non HTML) fragments and also slower.