On 12/03/2010, at 5:41 PM, Andrey Fedorov wrote:
> Julian Leviston wrote:
> As Self and Smalltalk have tried to point out to us, make programming SO EASY
> that it is the SAME THING as using the computer.
>
> But it *is* the same thing, by definition. The only difference is in the
> interfaces: GMail a "specialized"/"simple" interface, a C compiler is a
> "general"/"complicated" one. With time, we'll figure out how to make general
> interfaces which are simple.
>
> - Andrey
No, generally programming involves changing the nature of a program. Using
Gmail doesn't change the way the program runs. It simply runs it.
Julian.
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