What useful expressiveness will be impossible in a language where an expression is not a statement?
I am contemplating writing a programming language. Most grammars define expressions as being a kind of a statement. But really I cannot come up with a single example of any useful expression that would pass as a statement.
What do you call classes without methods?
What do you call classes without methods?
How will quantum computing change programming? [closed]
Closed 11 years ago.
Different kinds of safety [closed]
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A study shows that lines_written/time is language-independent for most programmers. Where can it be found? [closed]
Closed 9 years ago.
Use cases for “private” interfaces?
I was wondering if there was a valid use case for being able to properly define the specific internal properties and functions of a class in a way similar to how an interface defines the public properties and functions of a class.
Why are errors named as “Exception” but not as “Error” in programming languages?
I’ve been thinking about that for quite a while actually. I am not a native English speaker myself but still, I have years of programming experience and I always asked myself this. Why is it named as Exception but not Error since they are errors?
Is it ever too early to learn a new language? [closed]
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How would a new language look if it was designed from scratch to be easy to TDD?
With the some most common languages (Java, C#, Java, etc) it sometimes seems that you are working at odds with the language when you want to fully TDD your code.
Does C# give you “less rope to hang yourself” than C++? [closed]
It’s a book that basically says, C++ is enough rope to hang yourself, and then a couple of extra miles of rope, and then a couple of suicide pills that are disguised as M&Ms…