On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Eric W. Sink wrote:
> In other words, don't ask yourself which scripting language *you* would
> like. Ask yourself which one your Mom would like. This may not
> be the perfect guiding question, but it's probably closer.
I completely agree that user-friendliness is important, but I really feel
that you are exagerating the user-friendliness of, say, visual basic in
word. It can be very useful for making complicated things (I spent several
months doing just this) but I think the average user is put off by it.
Recently a friend was complaining about it to me. He just wanted to write
a simple macro and instead was faced with a complete programming
environment. As it stands, I doubt many non-programmers use visual basic
-- which looks a lot like javascript. Maybe we should divide it up into
two problems: simple macros and full scripting.
In other news, how far have people got looking at the code? I've been
working on tracking down some of the more obvious bugs but I haven't had
too much time for it recently. Probably would be a good idea to start an
official bug list, maybe get an automated web interface for it. I doubt
these scripting issues will be important for awhile yet and I'd rather be
spending my energy making a product than flaming. :)
(Oh, could a reply-to be set for this list?)
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