"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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Member since:2006-09-01
Member since:2006-08-08
Good work - and thanks for sharing Twilight. Ignore people like Paiter, who seems to have taken offense at the fact someone has created a language and made it available.
One thing I'd like to suggest is that maybe you should ask someone else to do your website, or set out a presentation style. A different font, italics and/or bold should be used to distinguish inline code and filenames.
For example, your website has text like:
You can have multiple -buildFile
references on the command line and the arguments contained within
them (newline delimited) will be read just as if they were all
appended to the command line space-delimited. A buildFile can refer
to other buildFiles as well. This mechanism is used to make the
overall build system multi-platform while containing platform
specific bits in a limited set of buildfiles which are copied into
place on each platform - specifically, in the
twhome/tw/current/buildFiles directory, the files buildPlatform.txt
and buildPlatformStdLib.txt
Quoted again, the words I've put in bold could do with highlighting in some way (e.g. a fixed-width font for the code, italics for the filenames/directories and so on):
You can have multiple -buildFile
references on the command line and the arguments contained within
them (newline delimited) will be read just as if they were all
appended to the command line space-delimited. A buildFile can refer
to other buildFiles as well. This mechanism is used to make the
overall build system multi-platform while containing platform
specific bits in a limited set of buildfiles which are copied into
place on each platform - specifically, in the
twhome/tw/current/buildFiles directory, the files buildPlatform.txt
and buildPlatformStdLib.txt
I appreciate that your time is better used for Twilight itself, but some of the comments here suggest that the website is working against Twilight to varying degrees.
Member since:
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