Re: [Brain-list] Still alive?

[Manuel T. <ma...@sp...>]

Hi Clemens

It's nice to hear from you after all this time.

Unfortunately I would say that brain is pretty much dead. One reason is that I 
don't have much time these days, because I work long hours for my job.

The main reason is that as always I can never make up my mind about how I want 
the perfect language to be. So in the meantime I changed my mind on a lot of 
issues about brain.

One thing is that alltough I still find a Smalltakish syntax aesthetically 
appealing, I also find that I am so used to programming in languages with C 
like syntaxes that I feel much more productive in them. So If I were to start 
from scratch I would choose a more 'mainstream' syntax.

Another issue is that I decided I prefer programming in statically typed 
languages. I like the feeling of 'order' of a statically typed language and I 
find it helpful that I can play with my code, change method names, signatures 
etc and be sure that the type system will tell me if I forgot to change a 
method call somewhere in my code. So now my ideal language would be 
statically typed but with a type system and standard libraries that are very 
flexible and high level so that the language can be as easy to use as any 
scripting language (maybe a statically-typed prototype-based language). Of 
course I have yet to decide how all of this can be...

I still like to talk about this and read articles and mailing lists about 
language design, and sometimes I think about maybe one day cannibalising 
brain's runtime and starting a new language, but for the monent... wo meiyou 
shijian.

Manuel

On Wednesday 07 May 2003 09:27, Clemens Hintze wrote:
> Hello Manuel,
>
> after some very busy years (switching the field of work from
> telecommunication to railway technik) and learning and mudding with other
> languages, I have asked myself if Brain did still live?
>
> In one of you last emails, I remember you have told, that you have played
> with the thought of totally abandon the further development of Brain. But
> you have also stated that you have changed you mind and continue ...
>
> For some time after this event, I had still regulary looked into CVS to
> view, whether you have made some changes. But all was silence ...
>
> Will it revive ... or rest in peace? ;-)
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Clemens.
>
>
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