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brian_harvey

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About brian_harvey

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    Comment #49669210

    A note to those commenters who complain that visual programming doesn't help you learn software engineering: Right, you aren't our target audience. We're after the people who aren'…

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    Comment #49669057

    There's no need to type the word "lambda" into Snap!. As befits a visual language, we have a visual representation of lambda; it's the gray ring that you sometimes see surrounding …

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    Comment #49668945

    I have to clarify that the Snap! implementation is 99% the work of Jens Mönig. It was 100% Jens for the first two major releases, back when it was called BYOB ("build your own bloc…

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    Comment #49668848

    The documentation problem is entirely my fault. I managed to stay up to date through version 8.0, but then so many things happened so quickly that I got swamped. Then I got depress…

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    Comment #49668721

    Not to mention first class continuations! :) Thanks!