2 Mar
2025
2 Mar
'25
3 a.m.
On Mar 1, 2025, at 6:16 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
I took a look at the V language, not a fan. But I'm a grumpy old C
programmer and I tend to hate languages that change the syntax for
no good reason.
There are quite a few newer languages but none outstanding (IMHO). I
do like V but that may be because I haven't written enough code in it!
I would much prefer to see C evolved. Not like C++
but just better C.
It dismays me that people feel like they need to make a mark with some
new "better" syntax. C syntax is fine, it's well understood by a zillion
programmers. So why not evolve that syntax to a better C?
AFAIK all such attempts have failed. C is a great portable assembler but
not so great as a high level language.
We did that with
https://www.little-lang.org/index.html which is a compiled
C like language. There are a ton of extensions to C that just made sense
to me. It never caught on but it still stands as an example of how you
could take C syntax and extend it to be more useful. Why people don't
do that is a mystery to me.
I looked at it when it was mentioned in the past. Didn't like it enough.
Anyway, my main point was that please do something innovative and
interesting if you must use a new HLL for an OS!