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Re:Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to ... by jedbrown on Saturday October 20, 2012 @08:49AM (#4676948)
Without a source-level debugger, I see little advantage relative to COS, which is C, but has a more advanced object and type system than Carbon. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192791 https://github.com/CObjectSystem/COS
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Re:Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to ... by wbhart on Saturday October 20, 2012 @11:11AM (#4677237)
There's less typing for the programmer than in COS as far as I can tell. And productivity is an important improvement.
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