On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 04:50:02PM +0200, Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS @ Pike developers forum wrote:
As for users that judges a language only by seeing if a concept with a certain name exists in it, without bothering to learn how it works, then I think the problem is primarily in them and not in Pike.
but issues like these make a language harder to learn, and that is crucial in getting the language accepted.
I think the situation is pretty similar to the word "string"; it's not possible to index outside strings in Pike and they don't leak etc, yet they still carry the same name as their dangerous low-level counterparts in C.
the syntax to declare strings is very different by having a "string" type, while c does not, making the difference in stringhandling abvious.
using c syntax to define pointers would not have that effect.
greetings, martin.