> Most languages not directly influenced by C (new or old) simply don't have these bizarre issues
I don't agree. Lisp is "easy" to parse, but difficult to add structure to. Tcl similarly. Typeless languages are now out of favor--everybody wants to be able to add types.
Perl is a nightmare and probably undecidable. Satan help you if you miss a period in COBOL because God sure won't. FORTRAN is famous for it's DO LOOP construct that would hose you.
About the only language that wasn't hot garbage to parse was Pascal. And I seem to recall that was intentional.
I don't agree. Lisp is "easy" to parse, but difficult to add structure to. Tcl similarly. Typeless languages are now out of favor--everybody wants to be able to add types.
Perl is a nightmare and probably undecidable. Satan help you if you miss a period in COBOL because God sure won't. FORTRAN is famous for it's DO LOOP construct that would hose you.
About the only language that wasn't hot garbage to parse was Pascal. And I seem to recall that was intentional.