Looking for ugly code comparisons WAS: Slashdotter looking forkids' programming language

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Fri Dec 12 14:40:57 EST 2008


Hello,

I call that the HyperCard effect.

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On 12 dec 2008, at 20:29, Bill Marriott wrote:

> Dave,
>>
<snip>
> cannot understand with a little bit of study. The same cannot be  
> said for
> other languages. At worst there might be a "PageMaker" effect. For  
> those of
> you around at the dawn of desktop publishing, the availability of this
> software (and LaserWriters) to the masses led to a lot of poorly  
> designed
> newsletters. But just as with PageMaker, Revolution enables mortal  
> beings to
> accomplish things they could not consider doing previously. The  
> particular
> expression may be inelegant, but if it works, it works.
<snip>



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