Re: [stack] function "adjoinment"?

chris glur <[email protected]> wrote:

> There's no problem with people playing cross-word puzzles, but
> when I queried cat-like's contribution to productivity, W. Tanksley changed
> the
> subject and pointed out that 'greatest productivity increases are from
> team-building,
> hence the increased use of java'. I don't dispute this, nor the claim that
> any
> productivity increase is bad, because it creates unemployment.
>

That's not even a vague approximation to what I said; it certainly doesn't
belong in quotes. You picked up _nothing_ about what I meant, although you
did spell all the words correctly (except "team-building", which I never
said). The succeeding economic claim is entirely incorrect, and isn't
related to anything I said.

I can't understand why they haven't eliminated char-by-char code writing,
> and
> replaced it by menu-driven -- a bit like spreadsheets. The only things
> you need to originate, besides the 'sequence', are ID names.
>

But they have done this. It's called "visual programming". (Don't be
deceived -- "Visual C++" isn't a visual programming environment in THIS
sense.) Look it up. Actually, Nowak's messages in this thread have been
about his ideas in that area, so you've been standing right next to a
pioneer and didn't even know it :-).

Go ahead, look up "visual programming". A good place to start might be
http://www.alice.org -- it's for beginners and only works for programming 3D
animations/scenes/games, but it's very well written and has been ported to
many systems. I don't think Alice is specifically your _goal_, but it might
point you in the right direction. Wikipedia will tell you the rest.

== Chris Glur.


-Wm


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