On 13/03/2010, at 2:45 AM, Dethe Elza wrote: > Other have made the argument that Google is essentially the modern > command-line interface, but I think this goes way beyond Google. Things like > mash-ups are made possible by the View Source nature of the web, every web > page becomes an API. The ubiquity of Javascript is what makes it powerful, > not so much the actual syntax of Javascript (although I will go on record > that I *like* Javascript). > > And back to Andrey's example that Julian was responding to. We can write > bookmarklets or GreaseMonkey scripts, or browser plugins that change every > aspect of GMail. We can use GMail to make general Google Queries. We can > embed spreadsheets and other executable code into GMail messages. How much > goal direction and configuration is needed to become "a program?"
I disagree with this. The difference seems fairly clear and obvious to me. A programming language must be turing complete... spreadsheets are not turing complete because they don't do program execution flow... looping and the like... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness Julian. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
