[Gllug] On Linux desktops...

mike mike at redtux.demon.co.uk
Thu Oct 18 03:19:01 UTC 2001


On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 21:26, Nix wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Xander D. Harkness spake:
> > Isn't this how the programming with the lego machines work.  You drag
> > and drop programming lumps together?  At least that's what it looks
> > like on the packet.
> 
> Yes, but, ye gods, it's crap. Imagine if you will a programming language
> that can have at most forty-some variables per program and about as many
> conditionals, and in which all but 3K of the machine's 32K of RAM is
> consumed by the horrible interpreter which runs what you upload to the
> embedded processor.
> 
> It's not a sane programming language. It's aimed at six-year-olds, and
> it shows. (And, at that, I was doing ZX81 assembler by the time I was
> six... perhaps at four-year-olds.)
> 

Sounds like VB/VBA


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