On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Sr U <[email protected]> wrote:
In 1992 I, with considerable sadness, gave up on programming because I > couldn't keep myself oriented sufficiently in larger programs. > ... > I had a master's degree in computer science and I *loved* creating > programs...the only thing in my life I had ever had that sort of passion > for. > ... > I was working with kids with only high school degrees who could program > circles around me -- because they could remember the names and locations of > their functions, in a 100 page program, and could pretty much jump around > in their code. I couldn't do that - my visual memory was poor. > So I gave up. > I have said many times that you don't need a great memory to be an effective programmer. What you need are great tools. Even without Leo, most programmers rely on autocompletion and bookmarks. > I have always been sad about how I had to leave my passion for programming > behind because I just couldn't do it well enough with "flat" programming > files and code scattered like cards strewn in a cruel game of "52 card > pickup". > Leo will help, but if you really have a passion for programming, you won't let difficulties stand in your way. To paraphrase Tom Hanks <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndL7y0MIRE4>: Programming is hard. It's *supposed *to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everybody would do it. It's the hard that makes it great. > One of my biggest surprises in turning my attention back to programming > all these years later (mostly because I want to dev > > elop a big program for my business) is WHAT A MESS CODE HAS BECOME. Code > is probably 1000 times larger and slower than equivalent code would have > been allowed to be 30 years ago. > *Some* code is a mess, surely. But not all. And there still isn't a decent editor for what you call "literate" > programming. I've come to Leo after searching, for the Nth time, for "tree > programming editor" ... and finally getting a reasonable lead. > Leo redefines literate programming. So it is important to me that I give Leo a shake. > Please feel free to ask as many questions as you like. It takes courage to become a newbie again. > And if I shake it and it kind of works but needs more or needs more > debugging, I'd like to help it develop. > There are several ways to do that. Some suggestions have altered Leo's history. Creating a ground-breaking plugin is another. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
