[Info-vax] The Kotlin language, something for VMS as well?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2017-07-11, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
> I read an interesting story about Kotlin, a kind of next generation Java.
>
> It has many similarities with Java, but also some big improvements.
>
> At the moment you can compile a source to a .jar file, and run it with a 
> Java Virtual Machine, or compile it to Javascript.
>
> However, in future (already in test phase), it will be possible to 
> compile Kotlin programs with a LLVM compiler, and produce executables.
>
> Here you can read more about it:
>
> http://kotlinlang.org/

Interesting.

The one thing which really stood out for me on that page is the ability
to nest block comments within block comments. That is a bad idea if it
functions literally as comment block nested within comment block without
any sanity checks by the compiler.

Oh, and if people keep abbreviating syntax in this way then we are
going to eventually end up with a situation where someone thinks it's
a good idea to come up with a modern version of APL. :-)

Simon.

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