On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Derek M Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > What I am trying to say is that Lindsay might only design a language > that is intuitive to his declarative memory. When he gets to > use it in practice he might not find it intuitive at all (ie, his > procedural memory might not get on with it at all).
got it. yet another axis/dimension along which to contemplate the subjective intuitiveness of a programming system, along with things like overarching model, syntax, edge cases, unrestrictions (e.g. reorderings), etc. (as an aside, i find doing unit testing helps me transition from the declarative to the procedural memory style and clean up the feature i just wrote. (no, i don't yet do full tdd all the time.)) sincerely.
