P: a new language from Microsoft

8    21 May 2017 14:06 by u/kitanasan

7 comments

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Instead of enhancing quality of programming let's create a new language to chase bugs. So Microsoft.

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All language designers should consider the searchability of their language when naming it. C was bad enough (ever search for "c strings"? Nsfw warning if you do) but why would modern languages get completely unsearchable names like "go" and "p" is beyond me.

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Cool, I might learn this language at some point in the future. Right now I'm learning C++ and Lisp though. It says it's pretty similar to Rust, which I've been interested in learning for a while, so maybe I'll just learn P instead of Rust.

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P, a programming language for modeling and specifying protocols in asynchronous event-driven applications. It is a Domain specific language