Is there anything *enjoyable* about our development process?

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:

> > Scripts should be understandable by humans with minimal 
> >   or no introduction to the language.  This may leave out otherwise
> >   very elegant languages like Prolog and pure functional languages.
> >   o This may also leave out languages with postfix or prefix based syntax.
> >   o Infix languages with no operator precedence are probably also out
> >     (e.g. Smalltalk, APL).
> 
> What does that mean?  Humans who have programming experience or humans
> who don't?

It means that if you show a script to lots of programmers who are unfamiliar 
with the script language, and ask them to guess what a script does,
a large percentage of them guess correctly.  

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