Re: Ada & Scripting

["John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>]

"kat-Zygfryd" <6667@wp.pl> wrote in message
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> "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > Oh, really?  SECRETARIES were doing Xerox document processor extension
> > programming in LISP.  No one told them it was a "scripting language" or
> that
> > what they were doing was "programming", so they were just doing it, to
> steal
> > the Nike slogan.
> >
>
> Well, I'm not a secretary :P and neither are my worldbuilders.

The implication was that, if a TOTAL non-programmer, who has been strongly
conditioned to believe that she/he could not program a computer to save
her/his life, could successfully program in LISP to accomplish day-to-day
tasks, with no prior formal training in programming *OR* LISP, it CAN'T be
all that user-unfriendly.

<sarcasm>Now, I'm sure you have an accurate appraisal of your own abilities,
and I have no doubt you are correct when you say that learning to do casual
programming in LISP is far beyond your current and potential
capabilities.</sarcasm>  But maybe you underestimate your worldbuilders?

I will point out that one of the standard programming assignments in MIT
course 6.001 (the freshman EE programming class, required of *ALL* incoming
EECS freshmen) is doing, essentially, OBJECT-ORIENTED small-scale Adventure
game worldbuilding, in LISP (Scheme dialect, to be precise).  If incoming
freshment, with typically NO prior experience programming in LISP can do it,
maybe your worldbuilders can, too?