Re: [FWP] Goal oriented programming

["Edward M. Perry" <eperry@learjet.com>]

> I --- and other folks I know who are really comfortable molesting computers
> --- fall back on pretending-to-be-the-compiler as a last resort when faced
> with nasty problems; most of the time we try and avoid nasty problems, and a
> great help in doing so is programming idioms which "read well" ---
> transliterate into natural-language constructs that document what I'm trying
> to do. In that spirit I really find

This is an interesting direction. Show of hands please, how many set $[?
If someone ask you to count to 10 how many of you would start at 0?
Before you knew anything about programming? Even after? The Almighty Camel,
at every turn, discourages you from being natural (insert definition of 
Natural numbers here), though its been made available. We have all learned 
that when instructing a computer, starting at 0 is natural. Its an easy 
compromise.

How do you Camelites cope when the Great Dromedary instructs you to use
natural constructs, but don't use $[, even though its available. Are you
ever tempted?

I must say I prefer computer 'natural' to people 'natural'. It is my nature.

Interestingly, many of my two year old son's counting books now start at 0.
Resistance is futile.

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