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Does the application have to be a fully-native one? I think an interpreted app would be possible, but distributing it would need distribution of a runtime. Perhaps if the idea of d…

The biggest hurdles are probably screen size & lack of symbols on the default keyboard layout. I think they can be solved with a little design, creativity, and focus on common use …

From testing with a few children, I do feel that Basic's mandatory line numbers make usage of goto much more easier to learn. I did have to spend some time explaining labels to my …

Thanks! I've read a couple of chapters in HTDP, and while I'll probably be alone in this, I don't like their design recipes approach very much. Seems artificial, treating the highl…

I know Scheme; actually implemented my own toy lisp at some point - continuations and all. Still, Racket (or Gambit...etc) is much more than the basic language, and I don't want to…

To read code (or math) I find life easier when I can "read" it inside my head. The terse and heavy symbolic syntax make understanding code less comfortable for me. The other thing …

Certainly does a lot of what I wish in a casual programming tool! I just wish the IDE had the autocomplete, quickfix, refactoring features of Eclipse...

There are many facets to the problem, some of them are easily solved with the technology we have. We need to learn from the tools people already casually program with: VBA, Matlab,…

The problem with casual programming is that problems of a given type (say parsing some files) arise from time to time; so unless its part of your day job, investing in learning tho…

The languages are mostly fine (until some next-gen language surprises us all); I think the current problems lie generally within tooling and infrastructure, which in turn come from…

VBA was a very nice step towards the goals I've described!

Yes, I do feel that JavaScript could be a very possible way towards achieving those goals :)

(author here) I'm not a Mac user, but took a look at Automator now. It seems a big step in that direction. Still, I'm not sure it makes the casual programming problem solved. Maybe…

I know about currying, but there's still a certain meaning to arity even in this case. It might be argued that on the long run the current syntax is better for the veteran Haskelle…

Whenever I try to learn e.g Haskell, the small things stand in my way; for example everything looks like a series of identifiers separated by whitespace, and the only way to unders…

Any information on how actors compare to CSP/Channels in that regard? I guess they'd offer similar power but there might be some subtle advantages of one over another. I made a lan…

We seem to be in agreement then.. يسعدني أنها أعجبتك! هلا أريتني لغاتك التي اخترعتها؟ بريدي موجود في البروفايل لو أردت ذلك :)

It might win hands down now, but probably not for a 1000 years. Lisp certainly includes certain 'timeless' aspects, such as lambdas and homoiconicity, but other features (like cons…

The future is also too long to assume our current generation languages will define it. While Lisp is a major step forward, I think it is by no means the end of language progress in…

> Pharaos are big in a metaphorical sense. Incidentally, I've heard that 'Pharaoh' comes from an ancient Egyptian word meaning 'big house' or 'big palace'. Another speculation is t…

1) Since early 2010 (but changed the idea several twice, began working on my first idea early 2008). 2) Nope 3) No again.