After Parrot, what next?

Andrew Hamm ahamm at sanderson.net.au
Mon Apr 9 22:38:03 EDT 2001


Roy Smith wrote in message ...
>A bunch of us were discussing the new Parrot syntax (i.e things like
>"left_angle_bracket_right_angle_bracket") today and came up with a great
>idea for a new language syntax, which mixes the best ideas of Parrot and
>XML.  Instead of:
>
Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

Why make life harder for people just to make life easier for parsers? Can
you imagine how dizzying a couple of pages of that would be? It looks
bulkier than COBOL to boot. Have you used Lisp in a previous incarnation?
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