Re:Do notation considered harmful
by goto11 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:37AM
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Non sequitur. Excel shows that declarative systems can be popular and easily accessible by non-programmers. Not that any declarative system will automatically be popular!
It is an interesting observation that declarative logic apparently is more intuitive to non-programmers than it is to programmers trained in imperative programming.
Re:Do notation considered harmful
by cousin_it on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:36AM
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To me a more likely explanation is that non-Turing-complete languages are easier to understand overall, but among Turing-complete languages, imperative is easier to understand. The popularity data seems to bear it out.
It is an interesting observation that declarative logic apparently is more intuitive to non-programmers than it is to programmers trained in imperative programming.