I guess I jumped the gun. I blame my Viking ancestry. :-) Bob
On Feb 23, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
