Scott Rossi wrote:
Recently, Scott Rossi wrote:
I don't know, Charles. Being a design-as-a-first-language,
programming-as-a-second-language person, it's *because* of TransScript's
English like syntax that I can get anywhere in the environment.
I'd much rather do this:
answer the detailed files
(This isn't exactly fair -- I neglected to set the directory first).
In reality, I'm don't know the previous function is completely necessary,
but still, the point is that verbose syntax helps in my situation. So I'll
continue to support its use.
And as your example illustrates, Transcript's so-called "verbosity" is
largely a red herring when you consider the number of lines needed to
accomplish a given task.
The degree of English-like-ness is debatable, for the reasons Mark
Wieder gave. But whether it's "English-like" or not, being an extremely
high level language sure takes the bit-counting tedium out of
programming, letting us focus on the human side of computing.
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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