Re: PHP on .NET DLR

Mike Wrote: > > Languages are evolving. C-based languages are evolving too, but C-based > languages may be too stuck in the past to effectively evolve. They has too > many concepts that are incompatible with newer, more elegant, and more > simple languages. > > BTW, one incredibly beautiful language I recently learned is from MS: > PowerShell. Its simple but scales its complexity well. OTOH, its language > design needed a clean sheet; it wouldn't have worked on the back of a legacy > C-based language. Powershell is what I had always wished the Unix shells would do. Interaction via objects. Programming on Linux is a chore, because it is all _AD HOC_ text processing. Now I don't mind parsing using proper algorithms, but Unix has glorified this random 'awk print $0 $1'. How can you reliably write programs depending on such logic? I guess, it allows some people to feel clever, whipping out some crappy perl scripts to do ad hoc text processing :-). I am now trying to replicate my zsh configuration on powershell. It is in version 1.0 and not complete yet, but I hope they provide a means to remap all the keys. MS is a Unix Company now. They are screwing over their old VB programmers and going the C way, beacause, as I said, when it comes to coding, only great programmers matter. Sorry. :-)