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"How about we work on platforms that support more that one language as first class citizens. Is that really such a crazy idea in 2013?" That was the nice thing
by 7952 14y ago
"How about we work on platforms that support more that one language as first class citizens. Is that really such a crazy idea in 2013?"
That was the nice things about the BBC Micro computer, you could code in Assembly and BASIC right out of the box. Since then the trend has been towards ever higher layers of abstraction. Even in python you sometimes still get indecipherable OS level error messages, but most of the time the tools work well.
It would be nice to have other languages in the browser, but at this point it seems as likely as python built into the processor. At least something compiled to JavaScript is unlikely to be any less secure than JavaScript on its own.
- watmough 14y agoOne of my 'things to do: not urgent', includes porting all the examples from 'Practical Programs for the Acorn Atom and BBC Micro' to JavaScript. I checked, and yes, there is an accessible developer console even in Chrome on my Chromebook, so it seems fitting that programs designed to teach the basics of programming to one generation, should be brought up to date to be used to teach another generation.