On Wed, 11 May 2011 16:24:47 -0500 harrismh777 <harrismh...@charter.net> wrote: > D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > Non-programmers should not be expected to program in 'C' nor in lisp... > > ... but non-programmers were able to program in BASIC jes fine...
They still had to learn the language. > I contend that non-programmers are able to learn rudimentary python and > work with it to solve real problems 'without' formal training in > 'programming'. When did the discussion shift from "learn the language" to "formal training?" How you learn the language is totally irrelevant. > Python is the New BASIC for 'people'. At least, it has the potential to > be that... people should be able to talk to their computers (whatever > we mean by that) and have the computer respond with real-world > solutions. We need to move away from 'canned apps' to a new day where > the masses can sit down to their computer and solve new problems with it > through intuitive language skills. Why not? That's not programming. That's using a canned app that a programmer wrote that takes your unstructured input and does something useful with it. Spreadsheets are a primitive example of that. Google is a more advanced example. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list