[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[chris]

On 04/04/22 19:07, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-04-04, Dan Cross<cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net>  wrote:
>> In article<t2eo9n$mj7$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> Simon Clubley<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>  wrote:
>>> 1) The syntax. It's horrible and imposes a higher cognitive load than
>>> it needs to when you are looking at something new or revisiting old code.
>>> That means you are more likely to miss something or work a lot harder
>>> than you need to in order to understand the code.
>>>
>>> One of the official Ada RMs/Style Guides/etc had it right when it pointed
>>> out that you write the code once but read it many times. The Rust people
>>> have forgotten this.
>>
>> Surely this is subjective?
>>
>
> All I can say is that I've learnt lots of languages over the years and
> the Rust syntax is easily the most ugly I have encountered.

Having had a quick look at the book, one has to ask, what is the usp
over C ?. Looks quite similar to it, but more obscure just to be
different and more difficult to read...

Chris

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