On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > Scripts should be understandable by humans with minimal
> > or no introduction to the language. This may leave out otherwise
> > very elegant languages like Prolog and pure functional languages.
> > o This may also leave out languages with postfix or prefix based syntax.
> > o Infix languages with no operator precedence are probably also out
> > (e.g. Smalltalk, APL).
>
> What does that mean? Humans who have programming experience or humans
> who don't?
It means that if you show a script to lots of programmers who are unfamiliar
with the script language, and ask them to guess what a script does,
a large percentage of them guess correctly.
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