> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
This is in reply to
> We've just chosen to keep things like this because we think it makes us clever.
Sneering at the unspecified "we".
> Programming can and should be much, much more user friendly than it is now
Work has been done on programming language accessibility for decades. It's often been controversial, e.g. Dijkstra versus BASIC, despite the huge practical success of BASIC as an introductory language across the microcomputer revolution. It's not enough to assert that something should be better, you've got to say something about how, in a way that at least acknowledges what has been tried already.
(Many of the ways in which the Javascript ecosystem is "bad" are the result of it being a horrible commercial battlefield over who gets to control the internet and all the computers connected to it and for what purpose)
> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
This is in reply to
> We've just chosen to keep things like this because we think it makes us clever.
Sneering at the unspecified "we".
> Programming can and should be much, much more user friendly than it is now
Work has been done on programming language accessibility for decades. It's often been controversial, e.g. Dijkstra versus BASIC, despite the huge practical success of BASIC as an introductory language across the microcomputer revolution. It's not enough to assert that something should be better, you've got to say something about how, in a way that at least acknowledges what has been tried already.
(Many of the ways in which the Javascript ecosystem is "bad" are the result of it being a horrible commercial battlefield over who gets to control the internet and all the computers connected to it and for what purpose)