On Sun, April 23, 2017 9:55 am, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: > I'm not sure why smaller should necessarily be better. >
It is actually, and the cognitive load approach, especially for programmers newbies, is quite relevant. Newbies have to deal with 2 or 3 things simultaneously : 1- the language itself 2- the programming "rules" (variables, loops...) 3- the program itself they're attempting to write. It is a well-known fact that the workload that human minds can process per unit of time is limited (AFAIR 7 bits/sec), so the less cognitive load is needed by step 1 above, the more remains available for the other steps... _______________________________________________ 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
