bearophile, el  9 de diciembre a las 23:08 me escribiste:
> Walter Bright:
> > I wish it were possible to have a language with just a small set of features that can do everything. C++'s problem is it can approximately do everything but with a boatload of gotcha's, like a const system that almost works but doesn't deliver. Java threw out too much.
> 
> Today lot of people think that the (close) future of programming is in
> languages that run on a VM, like Clojure (a kind of Lisp for the JavaVM
> fitter for multi-core programming). (While I think the far future is in
> things like OMeta and the like).

I loooove XLR[1] ideas in this matter.

[1] http://xlr.sourceforge.net/

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Walter Bright Wrote:

> Bill Baxter wrote:
> > Sounds like you're asking for Lisp.  Small number of features with which you can do just about anything.  All using only oatmeal and toenail clippings!   Lua is a bit like that too, except the toenail clippings part.
> 
> I know about lisp. My problem with it is the syntax. I just don't like it.

Tcl is also quite extensible. It has *very* few syntax rules but looks a lot like C.

C:
    for (int i = 0; i < strlen(str); i++) {
        char c = str[i];
        if (isupper(str[i])) {
            printf("%c\n", str[i]);
        }
    }

Tcl:
for {set i 0} {i < [string len $str]} {incr i} {
    set c [string index $str i]
    if {[string is upper $c]} {
        puts $c
    }
}

or

foreach c [split $str {}] {
    if {[string is upper $c]} {
        puts $c
    }
}