[Edu-sig] Question about a programming system

[Benjamin Fallenstein]

Hi Guido,

thanks for your input! I'll definitely have a second look on Alice in
this respect. And I understand about your objections in the direction of
general purpose programming (although I'll still play with the concept
;) ).

- Benja

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 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.