Re: "Intuitiveness" of programming languages/paradigms (fwd)

2009-11-23 Thread Andrew Walenstein
Alan Blackwell wrote: 1) What is the measure of 'intuitive' that you propose to use? Asking for the measure is sage advice, I'd say, for a PhD candidate, but the question that first flashes in my mind is whether intuition -- and intuition in programming -- is a phenomena that can be identifie

Re: Computers are systems not languages

2011-02-21 Thread Andrew Walenstein
On 02/21/2011 08:29 PM, Guzdial, Mark wrote: Sherry Turkle's new book "Alone Together" raises an important point that is missing from this discussion. Programming languages can't saying anything *important* from a human perspective. I enjoyed the review of "Alone Together" at .. Computer progra