begin quoting Todd Walton as of Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:12:29AM -0500: [snip] > I think if we're going to talk about programming humans we should > concentrate on technical documentation, and forget about the > simplistic "go pick up that ball" type statements. > > Another issue is the level of statements you can give a computer > versus a human. In this regard, I think everyone understands the > issue, and I think progress is being made in this regard. From > machine language to assembly to C style "high level" to languages like > Java that do garbage collection without you having to tell it to and > languages like Perl that mimic human language syntaxes to a high > degree without me having to tell it what "until" means. This is a > problem under control, if not licked. >
Guy Steele gave a talk at OOPSLA (in '98 or '99) called "Growing a Language" that was really interesting. And self-referential, too. -- Not all problems are as simple as we would like them to be. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
