begin quoting boblq as of Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 08:28:21AM -0700: [snip] > I remember having a conversation with Chuck Moore maybe 20 years > ago (Damn, how time files). I asked him, "What is your favorite data > structure?" He paused for a moment and said, "Oh I dunno, an array, > I suppose." I responded with, "The pointer cause I can build anything > I want out of it." Chuck just laughed.
Heh. Do you prefer tables or linked lists? > Nobody has mentioned what really was for years the main attraction > of programming before it all got so serious and "professional", which is > that it was FUN!!! And Forth was a lot more fun than most. This is why I always enjoyed the UNIX trend of creating little languages, and the day-to-day tasks of making the computer do what you want it to do often consisting of writing a little program. That's fun. Now I'm told that I can't expect computer users to be programmers. Why not? Isn't that the fun part? No. We have to minimize the number of languages. Force your tools to embed some general language instead of creating a tiny one that is exactly suited to the task. "Professional" shouldn't stop the fun. But to many, it seems, "professional" is about wearing a tie.... Not in doing a good job. -Stewart "RPN calculators are fun to build." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
