Too terse and too alien?

[Ruben Badaró]

I believe that aesthetics, with their effect on perception and emotional
response are being a bit ignored during this process. We're (mostly) all
engineers here and it's normal for functional goals to supersede other less
objective concerns.

Regarding the feel of Java, I would say there is a generalized,
almost unintelligible feeling of what looks like Java and what doesn't. This
is a similar notion to what the Python community calls "being pythonic".
While most people in this case don't really know what it should look like,
the feedback from outside the mailing list appears to point that a number of
people (in my personal sampled universe, a lot of people) don't think the
proposal feels like Java.

In my opinion, the group should consider this feedback very seriously.


Best Regards,

Ruben Badaró


On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Jesse Kuhnert <jkuhnert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Though I know I'm now expressing a different opinion than I was
> originally (thanks to Alex for pointing it out), a lot of this is
> indeed artistic / creative and not strictly measurable in the
> traditional sense. If we did things that way we'd just slap some blue
> colors on it like google and call it a day right? (not trying to pick
> on google too much, but well ...)
>
> Much like traditional art, not all opinions are created equal. Not
> saying that anyone is right / wrong, just that I'd tend to trust the
> most knowledgeable to brainstorm and find something that feels the
> most natural above anything else. (not that alternative syntax options
> probably aren't welcome as long as they fit all the same functional
> goals)
>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot
> <reinier at zwitserloot.com> wrote:
> <snipped/>
> >
> >
>
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