Hi All, Could you answer a question from a Slashdot Reader?
Yesterday, Slashdot published news about Apple's contributions for teaching computer programming among young learners: https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/09/17/224204/codeorg-disses-wolfram-language-touts-apples-swift-playgrounds?sbsrc=md When I wrote this: "Young english learners have the choice of learning Computer Programming using a Programing Language that closely resemble their native language: Livecode. It's Open source, Multi-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac, etc,) and Free for education and non-commercial uses. I just hope that, someday, people who speak other languages could have this choice too." Johannesg answer the following: "I found the following example on wikipedia: repeat ten times put "Hello world at" && the long time & return after field 1 wait 1 second end repeat So what does this magical natural language-based language do? It uses the same keywords you find in other languages ("repeat", "end repeat"), it still requires quotes around quoted text, it still uses weird symbols ("&&" and "&"), and no doubt there are still significant restrictions on language structure because otherwise it would not be parseable without ambiguity. In other words, it is like every other computer language out there, except perhaps slightly more verbose in places because most other computer languages have done away with sticking "the" in front of nouns." Today, I still have a small headache since yesterday night, so if anyone have time to answer this question from Johannesg please visit the discussion at: https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/09/17/224204/codeorg-disses-wolfram-language-touts-apples-swift-playgrounds?sbsrc=md Thanks in advance! Alejandro _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
