2012/5/1 Kassen <signal.automatique_at_gmail.com>:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 01:41:36AM +0100, Davide Della Casa wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> first email to the list.
>>
>
> Welcome!
>
>>
>> The attempt is to make something simple and accessible with lots of eye candy.
>> (Which, not to banalise, but is the type of program/programming that I enjoy
>> trying around myself the most). A cute fluffy toy to bounce around. A quick
>> inspection will reveal lots of regex work that is blatantly hit and miss.
>
> I love it. No need to appologise for bright and simple shapes, there
> are more than enough drab brown space-marines in drab grey corridors
> strolling from preset point to preset point already.
Strongly agree - no need to apologise for accessibility, bright
colours, clear examples, etc!
>> Again, please bear in mind that the intro page and the environment itself are
>> meant for complete novices, so please bear with the "pop" approach.
>>
>
> That works well. The less something like this makes us think of very
> serious people doing amazingly hard things according to arcane
> procedures while sitting on standardised chairs the better.
>
>> Other than that, please let me know what you think and suggestions!
>
> It's great. I only played with it for a brief time because I have to
> write some Fluxus before my deadline. It works well and quite
> smoothly. I did find myself longing for a sin and cos and when those
> didn't work for a list of available stuff.
Here, the yucky java heritage pokes through ;) - try Math.sin()
> Are functions like a sine expected to be too complicated for the
> intended audience (I certainly didn't enjoy classes on those, back
> then!)? Maybe it'd make sense to have the indicator that some term is
> unknown also offer a list of what is known?
Yes, for example some kind of autocomplete might help dicover new keywords?
Dan
Received on Tue May 01 2012 - 12:30:28 BST