Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ ed ] on Sunday 24 September 2006 22:32 \__
>
>> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:51:01 +0100
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Reminds me of something recent.
>>>
>>> http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/09/14/basic/index_np.html
>>
>> "First ponder the notion of programming as a series of layers. At the
>> bottom-most level is machine code. I showed my son the essentials on
>> scratch paper, explaining the roots of Alan Turing's "general computer"
>> and how it was ingeniously implemented in the first four-bit integrated
>> processor, Intel's miraculous 1971 4004 chip, unleashing a generation of
>> nerdy guys to move bits around in little clusters, adding and
>> subtracting clumps of ones and zeroes, creating the first calculators
>> and early desktop computers like the legendary Altair."
>>
>> That's why people do things in javascript, they don't have basic, so the
>> only thing available to get started with is the browser.
>>
>> If only python were on all windows boxes, it'd be a much happier place.
>
> What about this one?
>
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39283567,00.htm
>
> "Microsoft this month released its own version of Python, called IronPython,
> which uses Microsoft technologies and can compile to .NET or Mono."
>
> Some say that decent knowledge of HTML markup makes PHP a nice toy to any
> artistic fellow (e.g. designer), while I personally even find a
> P/L/package
Who is some? I never heard such nonsense.
> like MATLAB rather simple to use, even by the most amateur among
> scientists.
Don't degrade yourself so.
> It's interpreted, not compiled, but you can do both. But people use
> impreative P/L's more naturally than anything object-oriented, declarative,
> or logical.
What does impreative mean in this context? I hope to hell you didn't
mean Interpreted. No. You cant have.
Oh, and the 3 other "types" you used are not "types" of language. They
are words used to define attributes of many different languages and are
not mutually exclusive in any form or sense.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
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