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Smalltalk was the pinnacle of programatic pedagogy. Hypercard was the easiest way for regular humans to use computers for computer-like automations. But, then
by seiji 11y ago
Smalltalk was the pinnacle of programatic pedagogy. Hypercard was the easiest way for regular humans to use computers for computer-like automations.
But, then you run into the "No Real Programmer" problem. The nerds take over, hyper-complicate everything, then we're back to nobody understanding anything. (Also see: "No Real Unix User" when people say "Well, I don't consider OS X users to be unix users.")
- jowiar 11y agoThe other major tool I'd put up there with Smalltalk and Hypercard is Excel, at least when it comes to automation of real-world business problems. To an extent, it made a large enough set of problems easy enough to solve that tools have stagnated as a result.
- stillsut 11y agoUnder-appreciated aspect of excel: You store the data on a spreadsheet. A dev: hmm...Should it be Mongo-esque NoSQL, in-memory sqlite, MySQL vs SQLServer? But Postgres has most open source momentum...let's do pros v cons. Excel dude: Put the data in the grid. Then move on to what you're trying to do with it.
- CyberDildonics 11y agoI think you mean the data is displayed in a spreadsheet.
- bitwize 11y agoUnix dude: Fuck it! I'll spit out the data in text/csv and grovel through it with awk/perl.