A computer language is supposed to make it easier for the human to program the computer, thus it should be human-friendly and use language, syntax, and concepts from the human world. Otherwise, why not just write code in assembly? Or hand-coded binary machine-language? My biggest bitch about C and C++ and all its siblings is case sensitivity. I'm not promoting Visual Basic, but at least it gets the case problem right. (And yes, I've read all the arguments about why case sensitivity is supposed to be a good thing, and I think they are all bull**** trying to justify it after-the-fact.) I would love some sort of compiler switch or IDE option to turn it off. I Can rEaD someTHinG no maTtEr how sCreweD up tHe caSe, whY cAN't tHe ComPilEr?
I also don't care for all the {braces} which are awkward to touch-type.
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A computer language is supposed to make it easier for the human to program the computer, thus it should be human-friendly and use language, syntax, and concepts from the human world. Otherwise, why not just write code in assembly? Or hand-coded binary machine-language?
My biggest bitch about C and C++ and all its siblings is case sensitivity. I'm not promoting Visual Basic, but at least it gets the case problem right. (And yes, I've read all the arguments about why case sensitivity is supposed to be a good thing, and I think they are all bull**** trying to justify it after-the-fact.) I would love some sort of compiler switch or IDE option to turn it off. I Can rEaD someTHinG no maTtEr how sCreweD up tHe caSe, whY cAN't tHe ComPilEr?
I also don't care for all the {braces} which are awkward to touch-type.