Perfect Programming Language?
Don't get me wrong here, I don't have any intention of actually trying to create the 'ultimate programming language' ;)
I just wanted to get some opinions of what would be neccessary features in a perfect programming language.
Off the top of my head, here is what I came up with:
1) Must be easily human-readable i.e. straight-forward syntax.
2) Must be easily parsable/compilable i.e. non-ambiguous grammar, only need one toke of look-ahead to resolve.
3) various bits of syntactic sugar, definately templates and operator overloading.
4) try-catch-finally exception syntax.
5) optional garbage collection, i.e. it can be applied or not on a per-object basis.
6) compact std library, fully exception safe, with endian support, I/O, full suite of containers.
7) arrays should be sliceable.
8) else clause on both for and while loops.
Interested to hear your opinions
SwiftCoder
Quote:Original post by Sneftel
COBOL fits most of those. Enjoy!
Interesting, I will have to give it a spin.
Quote:Original post by swiftcoder
5) optional garbage collection, i.e. it can be applied or not on a per-object basis.
8) else clause on both for and while loops.
How the heck would those work? o_O
Lisp or Smalltalk for me. I use other languages out of necessity, but Lisp dialects and Smalltalk are pretty damn near the top in my language perfection tower.
Quote:Original post by OrangyTangQuote:Original post by swiftcoder
5) optional garbage collection, i.e. it can be applied or not on a per-object basis.
8) else clause on both for and while loops.
How the heck would those work? o_O
The else clause on for and while loops only executes if the loop performed zero iterations:
for (int i = 0; i < array.size(); i++); // do something to the array contentselse; // the array is emptyas for per-object garbage collection, I am thinking of a flag to new:
MyClass *ptr = new(DO_NOT_GARBAGE_COLLECT) MyClass();
Quote:Original post by OrangyTangQuote:Original post by swiftcoder
5) optional garbage collection, i.e. it can be applied or not on a per-object basis.
8) else clause on both for and while loops.
How the heck would those work? o_O
i can see how the optional garbage collection would work.
but else on a for loop?
do you mean if the loops control statement is false?
e.g. ( suggested syntax ? )
[ source lang = "WTF MKII" ]for( int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; ++i ){// code here}else{ // i is greater than or equal to ten ???}BTW, as a c/c++/Java coder, this style sickens me :)
suppose i could get used to it...
EDIT: just read your response...
By the way, if memory serves right, Python supports else clauses in while. Maybe in try/except blocks too. Check the documentation.
The perfect language for me would write all it's code itself and do the right thing
and nobody would know I had it but me. My boss would be amazed how fast I could write perfect code everytime, I would win big and everyone would love me too.
and nobody would know I had it but me. My boss would be amazed how fast I could write perfect code everytime, I would win big and everyone would love me too.
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