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Curious... I can't figure out if this is completely serious. There are what are either tongue in cheek remarks, or they are taking themselves very seriously...
by brobdingnagians 6y ago
Curious... I can't figure out if this is completely serious. There are what are either tongue in cheek remarks, or they are taking themselves very seriously...
> "removing the awkward necessity of writing text"
> "as powerful as other languages and significantly more colorful"
> "we believe it will appeal to many types of students who may not have an interest in traditional text-based programming, including painters, graphic designers, and the illiterate."
I think it might be more effective to teach the illiterate to read first rather than code... Maybe it's worth it if learning to code inspires them to become literate?
- ShamelessC 6y ago> In order to support quantum computing, which makes use of value superposition and probabilistic algorithms, future versions of WysiScript may make use of the alpha channel in color specifications. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're not entirely serious.
- theelous3 6y ago> I can't figure out if this is completely serious. "Most programming languages in use today use only a single color for all numeric literals, which is unnecessarily confusing and makes it impossible to distinguish different numbers using only a spectrometer" :)
- chris_wot 6y ago“Future versions of the language may relax this restriction by adding support for additional colors not representable in RGB, such as ultraviolet, infrared, and plaid.” Seems legit.
- efferifick 6y agoSigbovik is a joke journal. A very serious and very good joke journal.