Re:It's too bad Limbo is such a horrid language (Score 1)

Doubting Thomas wrote:Here was a language that looked like it was a solid step backward from C!

You obviously didn't try it!

It took me a couple of hours to get going with Limbo and it was well worth it.

The language has threads and inter-thread communication built in at the grass-roots. These are no after-thought strap-ons or additional libraries with clunky interfaces. They are part of the language in a very elegant and powerful form.

The language also features a very effective garbage collector, really useful string and array manipulation primitives and lists. (Never underestimate the usefulness of builtin lists in a language.) All absolutely fabulous.

I find Limbo programs smaller than the equivalent C, much more readable and predictable. By predictable I mean that a quick scan of the code can reveal what it is doing - there are none of the GOTCHAs you get in other languages e.g C++ or Java where you cannot be sure what a particular statement or expression means without recourse to a Class browser (or prayer).

The language is easy to learn, clean, type safe, innovative,elegant and FUN! What are you afraid of?