Another language that is very English like syntax is Livecode. It is an extremely battery included IDE; very much Hypercard. I like it because I can download one binary and click together software that runs on most OSs. But the language I cannot get used to ; far too much typing and I find it really difficult to remember things. For me the j code he mentions is easier to learn. Not to read maybe (although it is not that hard, but it is dense so it is normal it would take a little more time to see what it exactly does even if I program it every day), but to write I find the English and Verbosity annoying.
offtopic:
What other environments could learn is the battery included part: I spent another 3 hours today updating a .NET project. In return I get functionality I do not use and will not use. So why do I update. Because the IDE is nagging about it.
Does something exist that will ask me if or what to update based on what I used and the available updates? Like;
New features:
[ ] QR code
Bug fixed:
[ ] ListView
- crashes when Clear is called and a row was selected
Performance:
[ ] Latency on tcp sockets improved
— Linux only
etc.
Because I probably care about none of these or maybe only one.
And yet I have to spend hours on dependencies which I did not want in the first place. Or maybe I wanted only the latency fix but not the rest.
I think something like this was mentioned in 2600 once, where you can examine the list of changes and the code before accepting the updates, as well as to install only some changes instead of all of them. It seem good idea but may be impractical.
I have disabled automatic updates on my computer and instead manually select updates.
offtopic:
What other environments could learn is the battery included part: I spent another 3 hours today updating a .NET project. In return I get functionality I do not use and will not use. So why do I update. Because the IDE is nagging about it.
Does something exist that will ask me if or what to update based on what I used and the available updates? Like;
New features:
[ ] QR code
Bug fixed:
[ ] ListView - crashes when Clear is called and a row was selected
Performance:
[ ] Latency on tcp sockets improved — Linux only
etc.
Because I probably care about none of these or maybe only one.
And yet I have to spend hours on dependencies which I did not want in the first place. Or maybe I wanted only the latency fix but not the rest.
Sorry, ranting.