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by jonathanedwards 1720 days ago
Please take this as Computer Science Fiction
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constructive feedback, Jonathan:

Things like

    // passing values through check
    x do {
      check >? 0
      check even?()
      + 1
    }
appear to be in conflict with stated goal of

"It is an interactive medium for data processing by people who don’t want to learn how to program. For example, scientists who want to process data without becoming “data scientists”. Or people who want to build simple custom apps without learning to program."

[This fighting text with text is indeed a CSFi soap opera :)]

It says at the beginning that the actual UI wouldn’t be text based. Though, it seems like that leaves an open question of how to represent this?
Thanks yeah it's got a long way to go.