Ketil Malde wrote:
Although the question of how we "naturally" think often comes up, I'm
not sure it's a very important one. In my experience, the natural
thing for humans appear rather to be the absence of thinking, and
instead slouching in front of the TV eating unhealthy food.
After all, we give people who program computers several years of
education to learn about unnatural things like counters and temporary
variables, or recursion and folds. The question shouldn't be what comes
more natural for average Joe, but rather what skills can we teach a
reasonably bright student in three to five years that will make her the
most effective programmer.
I'll go along with that.
Although, to all the people who ask "why is Ruby so popular?", I might
suggest "because it's easy to learn"...
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