On 4/23/17 2:59 pm, Keith Martin via use-livecode wrote:
On 23 Apr 2017, at 8:55, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
I'm not sure why smaller should necessarily be better.
Surely a better equation might be how much one gets out for what one
puts in.
Well, that would be *another* measurement – related but not the same.
Even harder to measure, I'm sure. The cognitive load of a menu-driven
scripting system such as early versions of Flash was very low indeed
(despite being rooted in an animation timeline concept) – but it was
itself very limited. I think it's good that this Southern Cross U
comparison didn't go beyond a set of actual application development
tools.
I find the idea of cognitive load measurement extremely interesting.
If something's Just Damn Tough to learn it's simply less accessible.
It's the broad accessibility of xTalk that I have always found so
exciting, from my HyperCard 1.x and SuperCard 1.x days onwards... and
it's the relative Just Damn Tough-ness of Objective C that made me
bail on my attempts to learn it a few years back. The cognitive load
was too much for me. :-/
Personally the Damn Tough-ness of just about everything apart from
LiveCode is making me worry about my cognitive capacity.
Richmond.
k
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