Dependence on Programming Experts

[Josh Mellicker]

I have found Rev extremely intuitive except for one thing:

I wish it would parse

x = 5

(if not following an IF)

the same as

put 5 into x


That's the one thing I would change.

:-)


On Jul 11, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
> "I was just telling someone the other day, the main draw of computer
> programming is that it offers a "perfect world" where if you do
> everything right, you get out of it exactly what you expect, unlike
> the real world, where you can do everything right and have everything
> go oh so wrong.
>
> Computer programming is like playing with a virtual constructor kit.
> We love it because building things (even virtual things) is a whole
> lot of fun! Building things which other people find useful is even
> more fun! Which goes to another theory I have, and that is that we
> never stop being children. We just learn to handle responsibility
> better."
>
> And I am inclined to agree. However the level of abstract and  
> logical thinking
> required for really good computer programming requires a certain  
> amount of
> psychological maturity.
>
> Now - back to my maladjusted kid!
>
> I don't see the world of computer programming as a "psychological  
> save-haven"
> away from the buffettings of everyday life. After all, a brilliant  
> computer
> programmer who cannot pitch her/his idea to the customer/end-user  
> is still
> nothing more than a socially disfunctional zero; similarly, a  
> brilliant computer
> programmer who cannot listen and understand a customer/end-user's  
> needs
>  and implement them in a way that the end-user can work with is  
> nothing more
> than the geeky person in the psychological anorak.
>
> What I do see, is that after 2 weeks, my maladjusted kid has, by  
> managing to
> produce something that works (side-scrolling 2D game at the  
> moment), gained
> a leevl of confidence that he managed to open his mouth to somebody  
> other
> than "Mummy" and "Teacher" for possibly the first time in 10 years.
>
> I would be extremely worried if I thought that any kid, maladjusted  
> or not,
> who spent some time under my tutelage would end up as a mono-maniac
> who had to have a mouse "surgically implanted into his hand" or could
> only have conversations of the sort:
>
> "Hi, On MouseUp, If What Then? End If"
>
> sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
>
> ____________________________________________________________
>
> "Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the  
> fluidity of meanings users attach to words and phrases."
>                                        Mathewson, 2006
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