I disagree completely with the assessment of JavaScript here (from Mr.
Gaskin). Not only do I think JS is a pretty good language -- maybe even a
great one -- and not only does it seem to me to be true that a lot of great
productivity enhancers have been done in and to it, but JS pales in
I found this piece
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/09/14/basic/ on
today's Salon.com by David Brin interesting, if a bit
misguided. There seem to be some potential implications for
Revolution and Transcript but not as a direct replacement for
what he's missing. Still, he makes
Lynn Fredricks wrote:
He laments the lack of availability of BASIC, but software
preinstalled does not an education make, nor has it ever :-)
By itself, no, but it does increase the odds of having programming tools
in the hands of people who might take a shine to learning how to use them.
Richard-
Friday, September 15, 2006, 8:31:31 AM, you wrote:
I predict that the accident of history that is JavaScript's popularity
will one day be recognized as the single biggest productivity loss in
computing history.
I think it would have some competition from the goto statement. Or
when
Lynn Fredricks wrote:
He laments the lack of availability of BASIC, but software
preinstalled does not an education make, nor has it ever :-)
By itself, no, but it does increase the odds of having
programming tools in the hands of people who might take a
shine to learning how to use
I found this piece http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/09/14/basic/ on
today's Salon.com by David Brin interesting, if a bit misguided. There seem
to be some potential implications for Revolution and Transcript but not as a
direct replacement for what he's missing. Still, he makes some
The article has also been SlashDotted - and at least a couple
comments are up about how Hypercard used to be a good beginner tool.
One could probably chime in along those lines...
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I thought about that but it's not a direct answer to the author's concern.
He says line coding allows a beginner to create and trace algorithmic
execution and doesn't require use of UI componentry. I think he misses the
point a bit with that qualifier, but then that's probably just me.
On
I'm also not enamored with the article itself, but was just
interested that it spawned some sub-threads of discussion on what
exactly IS a good programming language for beginners. that's where
Rev is relevant - to the growing SlashDot discussion, not to the
Salon.com article.
FWIW,
Brian
On 9/15/06, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found this piece http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/09/14/basic/ on
today's Salon.com by David Brin interesting, if a bit misguided. There seem
to be some potential implications for Revolution and Transcript but not as a
direct replacement
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