Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 01:58:26 pm Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Licenses are written in a formal language intended to have > > precise semantics, especially in the event of a dispute going to > > court. What you wrote is precisely analogous to "a computer program > > should be understandable to non-programmer people". > > You've never used Apple's much-missed Hypertalk, have you? :) No. I was solving quadratic programs back then, and FORTRAN was much better for that. But I think it's more relevant that my mother tried writing HyperCard stacks, and gave up. On the rare occasions she wanted her computer to do something she couldn't do with MacPaint or MacWrite, she called me. She never complained about me writing programs in BASIC, even though they were totally incomprehensible to her.... And mentioning the "Python as executable pseudo-code" thing, I think you're way overestimating what average non-programmer people can cope with. (I'd be pleased to be proved wrong, especially by the undergrads I teach!!!) As for missing it, why would I when I've got Python?<wink> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
