Re:Minimalism in programming language design
by Rochus on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @06:20PM
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> So rather than a curing a lack of expressivity, complexity instead provides a marketing edge, in his opinion.
His focus was educating students at ETH; the languages he created with this focus were fit for purpose; it is true that there are developers in industry who prefer complex languages for sophistication reasons; but there are also pragmatic people; even they apparently prefer Delphi over Pascal; I don't consider Delphi complex e.g. in comparison with C++11.
> to me that seems like a kind of success
Agree; the original languages are great and a robust basis; and e.g. Go is a very successful offspring of Oberon-2.
His focus was educating students at ETH; the languages he created with this focus were fit for purpose; it is true that there are developers in industry who prefer complex languages for sophistication reasons; but there are also pragmatic people; even they apparently prefer Delphi over Pascal; I don't consider Delphi complex e.g. in comparison with C++11.
> to me that seems like a kind of success
Agree; the original languages are great and a robust basis; and e.g. Go is a very successful offspring of Oberon-2.