I shrugged, dismissively, when the Reason #programming language was announced as the new syntactic veneer atop OCaml. OCaml in JavaScript syntax—why?
But I, too, had been ensnared by that same comfortable vice grip of "apparent innovation". On many occasions, I had dreamt of new, modernised syntax for C, Fortran, Standard ML, and the like. In my dreams, that so-called "new" syntax resembles the 25-year-old syntax of Haskell.
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