On Jun 7, 2011, at 19:46, Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are either trolling or just very mixed up, the important thing is > not how quickly machines can parse it or how quickly you can write a > lexer but how quickly humans can parse it and what they can do with > it. C is not the best here but it is way ahead of any kind of useless > functional language. > C is superior; get used to it. All languages invented after pretty much suck. CS has been done a long time ago. Most new shit is just that, new shit. Shiny and mostly worthless. What the fuck ever about $language-du-jour. > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 12:08:26PM +0200, Thomas de Grivel wrote: >> Before even thinking of "fixing it" i'm trying to see if i'm alone in my >> quest. I like code correctness and feel what's done in OpenBSD is epic given >> the shitty language all the devs are dealing with. I love this much epic. >> >> Now if you want to know what code I'm writing, first I'm writing english >> because as you can see when a bring s-exp i'm answered "asm" and >> "brainfuck". Seriously did you even google the thing ? >> >> And i never criticized the semantics of the code. Just that it's a 1 month >> project to build a fudgy C lexer, when parsing s-exp is more powerful and >> takes 2 days while watching pr0n, and 2 hours without. >> >> This is clearly off topic, and don't mean to rewrite an OS but there clearly >> is a need for cleaner programming languages in this world. I used to love C >> and i'm still quite proficient at it but when i had a glimpse of Lisp i >> realized how narrow was my vision of programming. And how much i trusted the >> languages i used to mean something.
