On 23 Sep 2004, at 8:35 am, Craig Latta wrote:
> the livecoding room> define an "ooncha" as an oon followed by a cha
This is great. Amy's right - it does demystify programming in a live
context.
There's something vaguely HyperTalkish about it, though. And whilst
that's generally a positive thing for accessibility, there's something
rather silly about statements like
if there is a character "?" in theQuestion then
put "!" into character (the length of theQuestion) - 1 of
theQuestion
end if
Natural language coding is great for beginners but it gets messy very
quickly when - as a programmer - you need more advanced possibilities.
More awkwardly, avoiding such verbosity is also dangerous. Look at the
mess Lingo is in with it's half-baked dot syntax. The language becomes
harder to understand in either scenario.
It's be good to see how, perhaps, sticking to strictly music-related
functionality will avoid these sorts of problems - do you have any
further examples/ideas?
Cheers,
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