Bruno Cabasson wrote:

> 
> Right.
> 
> But the concern is so present that the question of a new SDL is 'on air'
> since quite a while, made this discussion happen, and interests a lot of
> people (I think). And I bet that those people you mentionned, once/if ever
> POV has its new nice syntax with new long-awaited features, will be the
> first to use it with greed ... The demand for new POV-SDL araised from the
> lacks and drawbacks of POV, even if it is a marvelous tool.
> 
> Bruno

:)

I guess you would call me one of "those people".
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against a new language perse but I am against "a
new language for the sake of a new language". If at the end of the
discussion it turns out that the current SDL cannot be cleaned up/extended
to do what we all want it to do, then off course we need a new language.
But implementing a new language has major cons. 
1) All current and older projects are useless because of loss of backwards
compatibility.
2) We'll upset/drive away a good portion of the current userbase because of
the new syntax.

-- 
Ger

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