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Language and compiler designed for teaching introductory programming
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future work? #10

Closed mhciael closed 6 years ago

mhciael commented 6 years ago

if you've already decided on some of the future work, maybe they could appear here as issues (even with help-wanted label)?

what would you think about the (common in similar types of projects) ability to drop in to java arbitrarily in a less-java file?

mhciael commented 6 years ago

found it in wiki: https://github.com/Zamua/less-java/wiki

Zamua commented 6 years ago

That wiki was used to keep track of feature status for Dr. Lam and I. I will open issues soon-ish for each of the big future work points. You can feel free to open any as well that you feel would be interesting.

Also, I don't believe that dropping into Java would be a desirable feature of the language. I feel that it would have unnecessary added complexity, and be more confusing for students. Do you believe it would be desirable for any particular reason?

lam2mo commented 6 years ago

This isn't really an "issue" as written. If you'd like to add an issue as a feature request for drop-in Java feel free to do so, although I think I agree with Zamua that it doesn't really have a great use-case in the context of 149. By the time they're ready to write "real Java" they should just be writing actual Java programs.