[geeks] Software Bloat

Greg A. Woods geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Dec 17 16:51:43 CST 2001


[ On Monday, December 17, 2001 at 15:57:27 (-0500), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Software Bloat
>
> The things that would be exceptionally alien to power users who just want to 
> make small tweaks would be all the parenthesis, and worse, the prefix notation
> for math.  Looking at the contents of some of Dad's excel cells, I rather 
> suspect that he would find functional programming easy enough he wanted to.

The success of Lout in some circles has proven that people can do
functional programming without even knowing what they're doing!  ;-)

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