Is there anything *enjoyable* about our development process?

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

"Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com> writes:

> 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.  

Ah, so you mean it's written in Visual Basic.

Seriously, *what* set of programmers?