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The Uncanny Valley of Programming Languages

September 4th, 2006 · No Comments

Coding Horror mentions Applescript’s well-intentioned attempt to feel like English. Quoting John Gruber The idea was, and I suppose still is, that AppleScript’s English-like facade frees you from worrying about computer-science-y jargon like classes and objects and properties and commands, and allows you to just say what you mean and have it just work. But saying what […]

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