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

[Ian Miller]

On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 6:19:16 PM UTC+1, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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" where someone thinks it's 
a good idea to come up with a modern version of APL. :-) "

R well you see this may have already happened :-)