On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 7:13 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

My big complaint with stuff like Rust, or even Go (sorry Rob), is that they
picked a different syntax. Why not just use C syntax and extend it to do
what you want? Why must every project redo everything.

Why use C syntax? What was wrong with Fortran, Lisp, or Cobol syntax, extended to do what you wanted?