__/ [ 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
like MATLAB rather simple to use, even by the most amateur among scientists.
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.
Best wishes,
Roy
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