It should be noted, Greg, that it was I, not Jacque, who made the comments to which you are responding.
And, FWIW, I don't completely disagree with you that we should be farther along. I suspect I have even fewer years left to accomplish my big software goals than you. (At least I think I'm the oldest active xTalker as far as I can tell, or certainly in the top 10). But we can't spend time bemoaning the fact that the tools aren't farther along if we expect to accomplish great things, either. Squeak and Croquet are awesome and are much more like what I'd like to use for development but they have some big disadvantages when it comes to deployment as well. Everything's a tradeoff. On 7/5/06, GregSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jacqueline: The real question that needs to be answered is, why now, with the tools of today, like Squeak or Croquet, would I want to resort to "coding" using the grunts and groans of yesteryear? I'm sorry for those many years you and others have toiled away trying to master those alien techniques "required" to make a machine do relatively simple things. I don't have a lot of years left to start from the point people like you started at many years ago. We should have come farther by now and should not be satisfied with anything other than those tools which save us the most time and energy. I made no insult to any person by suggesting that standard "programming" is the equivalent of communication using a series of grunts and groans. The fact that inventors of "modern" computer languages do not see beyond those methods which have already spent the lives of millions of deskbound slaves really constitutes the major technological insult. It is the required use of languages like these that force users like us to become "dumbed down". Need we submit to this kind of humiliation? Greg Smith -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dependence-on-Programming-Experts-tf1893108.html#a5194690 Sent from the Revolution - User forum at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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