Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Sep 2006 20:35 UTC, submitted by Craig_Welch2
"Twilight is an imperative, object oriented, general purpose programming language. The guiding principles of Twilight are simplicity, practicality, and orthogonality. It is a language which is easy to learn and to be productive in. An experienced programmer in Python, Java, C# or C++ will be able to pick up Twilight in a short period of time."
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2005-09-11
I respect the ability to make a language, but get some experience in other languages first, innovate. I design pet languages for fun, and I wish you had brought one of those to life instead of a C-syntax copy cat.
Learn a functional language like haskell - it'll really stretch your perception of programming languages. Check out Lisp, Lua, Ruby. Take a tour of new programming ideas - flare, composite-domain specific languages.
The problem with getting a language popular is that it has to offer enough benefits that people switch to it. Yours has no sell point that I can see. At all.
For a pet language to reach anything more than ahandful of users it needs a collection of benefits, selling points. It has to solve a problem.
Sorry if this is discouraging.
[edit] Perhaps I'm not seeing the good points - the page the article links to is long and ill formatted. I'd have a summary page and then a number of tutorials instead. The summary page should hit all the selling points.
Edited 2006-09-02 00:39