On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > > Oh, I mean, yes, everybody can learn to program, but how many have any > > kind of their own ideas for their own programs? Of all Lego (ab)users, how > > many build their own constructs while the rest is content with copying > > stuff? Of all literate humans, how many have something interesting to say, > > worthy of saving on a piece of paper? > > > > I was pretty serious when I suggested HyperCard. The amount of stuff that > people, particularly educators, wrote in HyperCard was rather amazing. As a > dirt-simple user-oriented authoring/programming environment, spreadsheets are > probably the only place where you'll find more user-generated code.
OK, you have a strong argument :-). I forgot about HyperCard and spreadsheets - never used the former and only few times the latter, seems like I come from the school which says a program is to be written as a text - whether it is written on a paper, into a file or carved in wood is not so much important in this school of mine. And it shapes my way of thinking a lot. Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
