> No, I just don't see what users have to do with it. Most of them > still don't speak English anyway.
Good luck learning Scheme or most other programming languages then. > > Right. And when they learn how to be programmers, there's a bunch of > much harder stuff that they need to learn in addition. Sure, and the more you pile on, the higher the hurdle. Are you advocating for making things more difficult intentionally? >> Some of us believe that in this day and age, being ignorant of >> programming, at least at some level, is akin to being ignorant of >> mathematics (again at some level) or science. > > Did I say in any way that I'm against making the masses know how to > program? It's *you* who holds the opinion that a case-insensitive > language is somehow easier to learn. Yes, because it is most like the largely case-insensitive natural language from which it grew, and which most people in the world are learning as well. >> Thus making changes to a primarily teaching language that are >> extraneous to novice users (as opposed to experts from other >> programming languages) seem misguided at least. > > If we're already down to anecdotes, I can provide two: > > * As a kid if a non-English-speaking country, I have seen several > examples of students that were confused by case-insensitivity. Were they learning English as well? > > * When the HtDP authors wrote a series of languages aimed at teaching > students, they intentionally made these languages case-sensitive. > (This was well before their host language changed its default mode > to being sensitive.) Sure. People can be confused. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
