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| ObjectScript: a new programming language |
| By Thom Holwerda, submitted by MOS6510 on 2012-09-30 20:15:02 |
| "The ObjectScript is a new programing language that mixes benefits of JavaScript, Lua, and PHP. The ObjectScript has syntax from JavaScript, multiple results from Lua, OOP from PHP and much more." |
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| meh |
| By johntdaly on 2012-09-30 20:31:03 |
| Almost every “new” language we get is a rehash of subset of the c like languages nowadays. I might still look at the code since I'm interested in interpreters but the language itself is uninteresting. I've got very little time to learn new languages right now and when I get some time I've got Smalltalk and Clojure lined up. |
 - Score: 4 |
| They lost me |
| By ukki on 2012-09-30 20:43:31 |
| at benefits of PHP. |
| - Score: 14 |
| Yeah, but no, but WHY? |
| By ameasures on 2012-09-30 21:26:26 |
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Recently looked around and the Vala/ Genie seemed the best of the C(ish) languages; most like this one seemed to offer little. (I found very limited documentation for Vala/ Genie and sadly it isn't clear what the road map is). Aside from cherry picking a few benefits of established languages; it isn't really obvious what ObjectScript is trying to achieve. [RANT ON] It REALLY bugs me that there are so many software projects where the objective seems not to be thought out. If the objective is thought out then it often seems to be a closely secret; instead of being key public information which would help folk decide whether to use it, contribute to it or skip it. [RANT OFF] |
| - Score: 6 |
| booleans |
| By zhaozhou on 2012-09-30 21:56:42 |
| Finally, a language with "bolleans". They seem useful. |
| - Score: 5 |
| RE: meh |
| By butters on 2012-09-30 22:00:53 |
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Seems much more like JavaScript than anything else. BTW, I wouldn't waste my time with Clojure. It's one of those academic toy languages, like Haskell, with a Hindley-Milner type system ostensibly designed to protect developers from themselves but ultimately being so extremely difficult to use that they exclude the kinds of developers who would arguably benefit from a nanny language. If you're going to learn a Lisp dialect, make it Scheme. Then take what you learned from Scheme and apply it to other languages with first-class functions, such as JavaScript, Ruby, and Python. |
| - Score: 5 |
| RE[2]: meh |
| By moondevil on 2012-09-30 22:09:58 |
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> BTW, I wouldn't waste my time with Clojure. It's one of those academic toy languages, like Haskell, with a Hindley-Milner type system ostensibly designed to protect developers from themselves but ultimately being so extremely difficult to use that they exclude the kinds of developers who would arguably benefit from a nanny language. You are surely aware the many corporations are slowly incorporating Clojure and Haskell in their code bases? |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE[2]: meh |
| By johntdaly on 2012-09-30 22:28:33 |
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I already do Ruby, JavaScript and Python (that’s my day job). I'm thinking about Clojure (or Scheme for that mater) because I think I'll like a LISP 1 more then I would like a LISP 2 (I've already got Land of LISP and The Little Schemer on my book case). I also don't expect to EVER find work with LIPS or Smalltalk, they are just for play. Edited 2012-09-30 22:30 UTC |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE[2]: meh |
| By some1 on 2012-09-30 23:38:22 |
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> I wouldn't waste my time with Clojure. It's one of those academic toy languages, like Haskell, with a Hindley-Milner type system WAT? Clojure, like all Lisps, is dynamically typed. > Hindley-Milner type system ostensibly designed to protect developers from themselves but ultimately being so extremely difficult to use WAT? You've never even tried to use one of those, did you? |
| - Score: 3 |
| Comment by some1 |
| By some1 on 2012-09-30 23:40:09 |
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> OOP from PHP OH NOES! Not a language inspired by PHP. |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE: Comment by some1 |
| By Soulbender on 2012-10-01 02:00:32 |
| Hey, maybe it'll get PHP's "awesome" namespaces too :P |
| - Score: 5 |
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