That Other Use for Squeak
Miles Fidelman
mfidelman at ntcorp.com
Sun Jul 2 22:30:46 UTC 2000
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Mark Guzdial wrote:
> There are at least two uses for programming. The common one that
> most people optimize for is building applications or other software
> to sell. The other one is "ad hoc" programming, where you use
> programming for yourself, perhaps for learning or maybe just
> It's an interesting conjecture, but I'm not sure that I agree with
> it. Andy is using the story to argue that "Once we get the right
> notation, perhaps programming WILL become commonplace." Yet, it's
> clear that we are hopelessly unsuccessful teaching programming, and
Just a couple of observations on this:
i. an awful lot of people write an awful lot of quick shell scripts to do
simple jobs
ii. not too long ago, I knew a lot of non-computer people who wrote lots
of HyperCard stacks -- this seems to have died down with the lack of
backing for HypeCard
My point is, that when the tools are there - shell scripts, perl for the
more technically inclined, HyperCard for the less technical - people seem
to use them.
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