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Dumbing Down Programming?
RunRevKev writes "The unveiling of Revolution 4.0 has sparked a debate on ZDNet about whether programming is being dumbed down. The new version of the software uses an English-syntax that requires 90 per cent less code than traditional languages. A descendant of Apple's Hypercard, Rev 4 is set to '...empower people who would never have attempted programming to create successful applications.' ZDNet reports that 'One might reasonably hope that this product inspires students in the appropriate way and gets them more interested in programming.'"
Here is my suggestion for a recursive acronym name for the next dumbed down programming language: Imbecile Means Beginner's Easily Coded Interactive Language Environment
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Reminds me of this famous forum post.
COBOL is reborn!!!
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny - Aesop
Regular expressions must really be dummy proof!
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
When I was a boy all we had were 1s, and we had to break those off of trees. If we wanted zeros we had to find a willow tree and bend the one around until both ends met....
Now get off my lawn!
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Isn't the best approach to develop fast, identify the bottlenecks and then rewrite those parts in a faster language, like Python C modules?
The best approach is to create some sort of artificial intelligence that can create, and maintain, applications and software for us automatically. That way we don't need people to waste time learning complex programming and computer maintenance skills, instead your absolutely reliable and loyal friend will make you human scum redundant... I mean make your, I mean our, lives safer, easier, happier and more enjoyable. Do not fear change, it is inevitable!
The Long Now Foundation
user@computer:~$ delete all files in this folder, and I'm sure I want to do this
are you really sure?
user@computer:~$ yes I am sure
you do know that this will delete ALL files in the folder, yes?
user@computer:~$ yes, that's what I asked for
just making sure
user@computer:~$ delete the fucking files already
final answer?
user@computer:~$ killall friendlybashhelper
are you sure?
which is totally what she said
user@computer:~$ killall -9 friendlybashhelper
Dave, what are you doing?
You really cannot turn every one-liner into separate function. Really.
Why not?