Trying to decide between PHP and Python

Neil Cerutti neilc at norwich.edu
Wed Jan 5 11:15:15 EST 2011


On 2011-01-05, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Optimizing a language for the ease of the compiler writer is
> like saying, sure, that car is expensive to buy, expensive to
> run, doesn't work well, and tends to kill a lot of people, but
> it took less time to design!

A simple to parse syntax has non-trivial benefits. It makes a
macro system feasible.

-- 
Neil Cerutti



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