I may have misunderstood him too. But I interpreted the second video in the context of a teacher having run through the students' first programming lesson (in this case Python), and then asking generally, "so why do we have to learn a computer language rather than use a language we already know such as English or Mandarin?". And the answer - perhaps badly illustrated - computers need to be given unambiguous instructions. In a Livecode context, we might ask why we have to write "on mouseUp" and not "on mouseClick" (or why not " when the mouse is clicked")
So I took his point to be that computer languages are different from human languages. On 23 Feb 2012, at 23:15, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I may have misunderstood him then. I am not sure what the distinction between > English-like and natural English programming languages is however. Give me an > example of a natural english programming language if you please. I have not > ever heard of anything except hypertext based languages, because the > consensus was waaay back in the day that you could only go so far to make a > programming language like a spoken one before all kinds of problems enter in. > It has been my understanding that Hypertalk and it's derivatives is as far as > it has gone. It also seemed to me that he was making the case that languages > like the one Livecode uses are inferior to Python and not to be considered > because they are too arbitrary. Again, I may have misunderstood him. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
