[E-Lang] "send more newbies" (was: down with `define' (was: newbie syntax: picayune points from a prejudiced programmer))

[zooko@zooko.com]

> And though I am delighted having Zooko doing his inspection, I believe
> Zooko's reactions should be trusted less than marcs1999, because Zooko is
> too smart a guy (after all, he thinks the transition from java to python is
> easy! :-)


Thanks!


Yeah, in addition to being fairly tainted by non-standard programming
languages already, I'm also learning something about the E semantics in
spite of myself.  Soon my newbie karma will be all spent, and we'll
need to recruit some more newbies.


> The correct answer, of course, is to get 10,000 programmers to investigate
> the language, and see what they say...which is where we circle back around
> and bite ourselves with the original problem :-)


I would be willing to put an article on Advogato advertising E's
features and asking for "how easy is it to learn" testers.  I would say
something to make people think that it would be only a small time 
commitment, like "if you can't write a small secure distributed
application, and enjoy it, within four hours of starting
_E_in_a_Walnut_, then we want to know why not".


Which is true, even if the antecedent is usually false.  :-)


Regards,

Zooko