Re: Flattening Nested Lists
Re: Flattening Nested Lists
- Subject: Re: Flattening Nested Lists
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:10:08 -0800
On 2009-01-27, at 09:14:19, email@hidden wrote:
There's no difference between programmers and scriptors Ed.
Ed,
Apparently you failed to notice my message had a second part. I feel
your remarks quoted below take the line above out of context and
mostly make sense in a world where tautology is considered valid. The
other line in my post was:
"What counts is how the logic of the medium is applied."
In other words, given the set of rules upon which an arbitrary
language (language X) is based, a person whose background is in
AppleScript would have an equal opportunity to attain a desired result
in language X as a person whose background was in Pascal. Or a person
whose native language was French as differing from a person whose
native language was Japanese. For example, while different computer
languages may have different notations for assigning a value to a
variable, the fundamental principal is the same. So I'd say, that if
someone couldn't realize that:
set x to (9 + 9)
x as small integer
is expressing the same kind of idea as:
x : integer;
x := 9 + 9;
they had been learning their computer languages as a trained rat
rather than a set of rules logically applied, don't have the aptitude
for that kind of thinking anyway, and might be happier in another
discipline.
Philip Aker
echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@
Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
Really? No Difference? So a C programmer is a scripter?
I think the argument may be that scripters are a subset of
programmers. All scripters are programmers, but not all programmers
are scripters.
And while technically that may have some validity, but even then
there are clear distinctions. There's even different definitions of
programmer.
Not all programmers are programmers.
In this case the first definition is one who writes computer
programs and the second definition is one whose profession is
computer programming.
I would argue that most AppleScripters have careers and professions
that are not related to programming, but write scripts to accomplish
specific tasks and to refer to them as programmers is misleading,
imprecise and inaccurate.
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