Linked by David Adams on Tue 14th Oct 2008 03:52 UTC, submitted by estherschindler
Several up-and-coming scripting languages--some open-source--are gaining popularity among software developers. These dynamic programming languages, including Groovy, Scala, Lua, F#, Clojure and Boo, deserve more attention for your enterprise software development, even if your shop is dedicated to Java or .NET. Here's why.
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Maybe it's just me... probably is just me
, but why is it that scripting languages think it is easier to leave out structure like semicolons, parenthesis, braces...
To me, it just makes it more confusing and easier to make mistakes. I mean, it's been a while since I used VB, but remember at times having to NOT include parenthesis when calling a procedure.
like: MyProc arg1, arg2
when it C, it would look like: MyProc(arg1,arg2).
Then there's things like makefiles and their use of tabs... I don't know. To me, the value in scripting languages are their libraries. I don't find their syntax any better than c/java like languages.
Anyone else know why scripting languages don't just use c-like syntax... as much as possible at least?