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This can cut both ways, though—English-likeness can be bad for a language when it comes to the boundaries of what English expresses well (see https://daringfire
by JadeNB 5y ago
This can cut both ways, though—English-likeness can be bad for a language when it comes to the boundaries of what English expresses well (see https://daringfireball.net/2005/09/englishlikeness_monster https://daringfireball.net/2005/09/englishlikeness_monster). There's a reason we don't program in COBOL!
- nauticacom 5y agoI must be the only person on the planet who likes AppleScript :)
- JadeNB 5y agoI want so much to like it, but, even in its heyday, the documentation was so poor—everyone seemed so convinced that its English-likeness made it obvious that they seemed to refuse to document the 'obvious' commands. And now it seems that even Apple has decided to let it languish.