> In an ideal world all computers would ship with a native programming language, a big fat manual for users, The Archimedes I grew up with had BBC BASIC (with

> In an ideal world all computers would ship with a native programming language, a big fat manual for users, The Archimedes I grew up with had BBC BASIC (with its assembler) and more of the machine's user's guide was programming language manual than anything else. python is sort-of close given it's designed as a teaching language. many of my fellow perl hackers came from a humanities background and say they found the human-language-ness to make perl more approachable than anything else. I wonder whether an analysis of what python and perl do and don't have in common with BASICs might help answer the question of how to make a language as accessible as possible ...