SPUG: SPUG presentation
Michael R. Wolf
MichaelRWolf at att.net
Thu Jan 20 12:02:28 PST 2005
Trey,
Thanks for one of the best presentations I've seen at SPUG. You did a
great job of covering newbies, intermediates, and advanced listeners,
making sure that each group got something, and that most groups got much
more. A good set of perspectives, too -- academic intro, user-centered
middle, behind-the-covers closing. And what a great new (OK, old) way to
think and program. It really opened a new world for me. Most of
programming is held up by a framework of the control structures that we're
familiar with. This, being a different control structure, lets us think
differently. It reminds me very much of a quote card that I hand out in
many of the programming language classes I teach:
Language shapes the way we think,
and determines what we can think about.
-- B. L. Whorf
-- as quoted in the Preface to the First Edition of
"The C++ Programming Language", Bjarne Stroustrup
By adding something to the language, you've added something different to
think about.
Thanks again for a GREAT presentation,
Michael Wolf
Michael R. Wolf
All mammals learn by playing!
MichaelRWolf at att.net
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