[Edu-sig] Question about a programming system

[Guido van Rossum]

Benjamin,

I think that for limited domains your approach makes a lot of sense.
Alice effectively does the same, mapping hierarchical menu choices to
Python statements -- but statements chosen from a limited domain.

That said, for a full-fledged programming language, your proposal
reminds me of Apple's Hypertalk, which (in my eyes) is not a good
general programming language -- the English syntax really gets in the
way.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)