Greg, look at some APL or C source code. Then you might understand
why we use Transcript. It doesn't get better than this.
I don't see any "grunts or groans" in it. I see an English-like
language that most of us can 'get' after a couple of weeks
experimenting. The stuff we don't know yet we can look up.
A program is nothing more than a list of things to do. Period. That
list requires statements. What would you propose this list be
comprise of? Pictures?
If you can't see that, and that 'technical stuff' is bothering you
then perhaps Revolution and programming in general is not for you.
sqb
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
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stephen barncard
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