On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:50:53 -0800, Scott Rossi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
but still, the point is that verbose syntax helps in my situation.
So I'll
continue to support its use.
Earlier, Scott had written
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.
Just want to say that I come from the opposite end to Scott, since
I'm a programmer from further back than you can imagine (probably)
and I started off practically programming in binary (really it was
octal, but there you go). In those days the programmer had to
translate his ideas into a very awkward, obscure and bug-inducing
language, and it was a pain. Mistakes were rife, productivity was
low, and it just wasn't enough fun. As a result, I have been in
favour of every advance towards clarity and 'natural language-like'
programming that has occurred since, although I am well aware that
"English-like" is not and never will be, English. Anyway X-talk gets
my vote every time.
OTOH I entirely agree with those sounding a note of caution about
extending X-talk: certainly it should happen, but slowly and with a
great deal of consideration of the pros and cons. I believe there are
other lists for this kind of discussion.
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France
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