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"David Starner" <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 23:25:41 +0200, Ayende Rahien <Dont@spam.me> wrote:
> > I agree with all of the above, while begin-end may improve visibility,
no
> > programming language has to consider non-programmers as a target
audiance.
>
> No Ada-like programming language, maybe. But Fortran, Basic, Visual Basic
> and Hypercard are all programing languages that considered non-programmers
> a target audience and had many users because of it.

Basic was meant for beginners, VB is quite easy to learn syntax wise, but
everything else require quite some knowledge.
Hypercard is for Macs, isn't it?

I'm talking mostly about VB, but I think that other languages (except
fortran? I have heard, but never used it) sacrifise a lot in order to be
easy.

You are correct, of course, I ignored those languages.