Comments on: Degringolade Atkins http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/06/09/degringolade-atkins/ better than fun Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:03:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dominic http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/06/09/degringolade-atkins/comment-page-1/#comment-32550 Dominic Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:28:40 +0000 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=1200#comment-32550 Inform 7 is easier than BASIC in a lot of ways - it's quite natural-languagey. It belongs more to the Prolog family than the Algol family, which some people find a better fit for their brains. <a href="http://www.mozart-oz.org/" rel="nofollow">Mozart</a>, a really nice modern programming language, is also partially descended from Prolog. Inform 7 is easier than BASIC in a lot of ways – it’s quite natural-languagey. It belongs more to the Prolog family than the Algol family, which some people find a better fit for their brains.

Mozart, a really nice modern programming language, is also partially descended from Prolog.

]]> By: steve brown http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/06/09/degringolade-atkins/comment-page-1/#comment-32549 steve brown Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:08:21 +0000 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=1200#comment-32549 Inform 7 - I'm still bemused by BASIC Inform 7 – I’m still bemused by BASIC

]]> By: Alex http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/06/09/degringolade-atkins/comment-page-1/#comment-32529 Alex Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:25:56 +0000 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=1200#comment-32529 If you had your way, we'd all program machine code. You are a one man assembler. If you had your way, we’d all program machine code. You are a one man assembler.

]]> By: Dominic http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/06/09/degringolade-atkins/comment-page-1/#comment-32526 Dominic Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:09:48 +0000 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=1200#comment-32526 Cosmetically "natural", and undoubtedly user-friendly. But in their black, wizened little hearts, they're all still programming languages. Same goes for Inform 7. Cosmetically “natural”, and undoubtedly user-friendly. But in their black, wizened little hearts, they’re all still programming languages.

Same goes for Inform 7.

]]> By: Alex http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/06/09/degringolade-atkins/comment-page-1/#comment-32525 Alex Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:20:51 +0000 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=1200#comment-32525 "There’s no programming language sufficiently close to the way human beings make sense of the world for non-programmers to be able to use it comfortably, and there’s no human-friendly specification language exact and unambiguous enough to be machine-translated directly into code." sEnglish? Applescript? Mozilla Ubiquity? “There’s no programming language sufficiently close to the way human beings make sense of the world for non-programmers to be able to use it comfortably, and there’s no human-friendly specification language exact and unambiguous enough to be machine-translated directly into code.”

sEnglish? Applescript? Mozilla Ubiquity?

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