On: The Hypercard Legacy

[jowiar]

Excel, the most successful programming environment for non-programmers, is functional in nature, so I don't doubt that functional is the way to go. Elm's syntax leaves me a bit more skeptical, though.

[eric_bullington → jowiar]

The Haskell-like syntax? Yeah, it's possible that this could be confusing for a beginner. What in particular are you skeptical about?

[jowiar → eric_bullington]

Positional arguments are a big nono for me. When I read the code, there's too much overhead to knowing what things do. One of the nice things about HyperTalk is that it's a bit self describing.

One of these three is entirely non-obvious

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[tome → jowiar]

How about

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