Re: [ppig-discuss] Beginner friendly error messages

2016-04-05 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
That's rather odd. Guido van Rossum, inventor of Python, was if memory serves me correctly, worked for several years on the ABC programming language developed at the CWI by Guerts, Meertens and Pemberton as amongst other things a beginners' language. I gather van Rossum didn't like it, but

Re: [ppig-discuss] Rhetorical structure of code: Anyone interested in collaborating?

2016-04-28 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
On 28/04/16 7:15 PM, Dan Sumption wrote: This is a subject that interests me greatly, and I'm keen to hear people's views on it. My perspective is that of a working software developer (albeit with a background in psychology), not an academic. I have no experience of ML, and have worked

Re: [ppig-discuss] Re: [erlang-questions] Rhetorical structure of code: Anyone interested in collaborating?

2016-04-28 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
On 29/04/16 3:44 AM, Brad Myers wrote: We have found that trying to have any particular visualization that serves lots of needs is rarely successful, and a better strategy is to try to understand and then more directly answer the specific questions that developers have. We discuss this