Alexey Zakhlestins blog

By the way, I registered an account at ohloh.net project. You can see all opensource-projects I was involved in, there.

I really-really want to see a programming language, which allows using proper unicode symbols for operators.
I mean:

× instead of *
→ instead of ->
← instead if <-
≠ instrad of !=
≤ and ≥ instead of <= and >=

This list can be continued more and more…
I perfectly understand the roots of current situation and I don’t ask to [...]

Somehow, I missed this news earlier, but, I guess, it is very important. Because it means, that:

MacOS would be able to use non-gcc by default (there are some comments, here, describing why it is a good thing)
MacOS would become really-really cross-platform

Some internal feeling makes me believe, that Smalltalk would be an ideal language for Haiku-OS/OpenBeOS (which looks more and more alive, again).
BeOS was always about C++, opposing UNIX’es, MacOS’es and Windows’es choice of C (well, formally, windows had C++ api, but, still, it was very C-ish in it’s essence). Years passed, MacOS switched to Objective-C, [...]