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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:35:57 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-06-15, gvdschoot@gmail.com <gvdschoot@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, June 15, 2014 8:33:44 AM UTC+2, Tero Koskinen wrote:
>> 
>> This is valid Rust code [1]:
>> 
>> pub fn inner<'a>(&'a mut self) -> &'a mut R
>> {
>>    &mut self.h.r
>> }
>> 

That's bloody depressing. :-(

I wonder if today's language designers even know what a Wirth style
language looks like.

>> [1] https://twitter.com/damienmiller/status/476207923702423552
>

Now I'm even more depressed. "function" is too long ???

> On reddit there was a discussion about the GNU coreutils in platform
> independent Rust code[1] and here the code itself on github[2]. This is how it
> looks like in Go[3]. I mean, just look at the code. I am sorry to say this, but
> in the case of Rust I see C++ mistakes being repeated. To me language syntax is
> very important. Readability, simplicity and reasonability should be paramount. 
>
> [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27yccu/crossplatform_rust_rewrite_of_the_gnu_coreutils/
> [2] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
> [3] https://github.com/aisola/go-coreutils

Thanks for the links (and very interesting links they were.)

I don't like the Go brace style however. (My own brace style in C
is the Whitesmiths brace style.)

I guess I now know what I'm re-implementing as a test if Oberon-14
were to ever become something real. :-)

Simon.

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