Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704a-Liber) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Language illiteracy Message-ID: <4654@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 5 May 88 19:13:47 GMT References: <786@trwcsed.trwrb.UUCP> <8088@ames.arpa> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 23 In article <8088@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya) writes: >A better example is to ask some one to >write text editors or text edit using Fortran (and a lesser extent C). I don't think you could pay me enough to do this in FORTRAN!! :-) >[Groddy] You would certainly rather use an editor (a tool for the job). And writing a text editor in FORTRAN instead of C is using the wrong tool for the job (in my humble opinion, of course)! >The problem is that people (myself when I was younger) don't see editing >as a language, drawing as a language, mouse movements as a language (now I see). These are not (or should not) be languages (in the sense that you have to program in them). Stuff like mouse movements are better characterized by making them a class in an object-oriented language. They are tools that should be at your disposal, not a language in and of itself. -- _ __ NEVIN J. LIBER ..!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 (312) 510-6194 ' ) ) "The secret compartment of my ring I fill / / _ , __o ____ with an Underdog super-energy pill." / (_