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Re: Software's Weak Link is Code

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On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:17:27 -0400, Unknown <dog@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 03:26:58 -0400, Rod Pemberton wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:59:42 -0400, <visualforth@rocketmail.com> wrote:

>> Using diagrams would offer tremendous advantages to those who are
>> especially visual as compared to those who are verbal.  Unfortunately,
>> verbal people account for 75% of the populace.  So, you diminish the
>> number of people who would work as effectively with the new tools.
>
> Yes: the econamy doesn't NEED them; like the 95% population that used
> to be farmers. Now they can all be politicians, lawers and Maidox.

The "economy" (personified) only needs so many mininions such as ditch
diggers, street pavers, truckers, porn stars, strippers, lawyers, drug
dealers, and cops.  What is everyone else supposed to do?  Riot?  Go to
prison?  Be deported? Become a terrorist?  Become a militant?  Take
extreme risks?  Be a drunk?  Call Death?  There is a certain natural
level of necessity for occupations, once reached represents saturation.

>> But, it seems that Forth would be very "late to the party" to me,
>> especially considering that VisualBasic has been around since 1991 ...
>> I.e., timing, advantage, etc issues.
>>
>>
> Wasn't VB very popular?
>

Was VB popular or unpopular?  I think corporations used it to obtain
people who could be pushed into programming for minimal salary.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing.  Reducing the costs of companies
increases their profit, which can boost their wealth, and indirectly,
sometimes their stock price.  It allows resources, such as people and
capital, to be free'd up for other purposes.  The problem is that work
is needed to keep people complacent and content.  Without jobs, people
take paths that prove destructive to a society, such as the hypotheticals
and historically proven options listed in the paragraph above.

If VB was very popular, then what's left for a visual Forth to
do in this area?  Replace it?


Rod Pemberton

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Software's Weak Link is Code visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2014-07-23 09:59 -0700
  Re: Software's Weak Link is Code Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 10:32 -0700
    Re: Software's Weak Link is Code JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2014-07-23 11:40 -0700
      Re: Software's Weak Link is Code Celeros <kerneels@gmail.com> - 2014-07-25 16:10 +0200
        Re: Software's Weak Link is Code Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-07-25 07:22 -0700
          Re: Software's Weak Link is Code Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-07-25 07:28 -0700
          Re: Software's Weak Link is Code Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-07-25 18:06 +0100
          Re: Software's Weak Link is Code rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-07-25 15:16 -0400
            Re: Software's Weak Link is Code Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-07-25 22:19 +0100
            Re: Software's Weak Link is Code Celeros <kerneels@gmail.com> - 2014-07-26 23:42 +0200
              Re: Software's Weak Link is Code rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-07-26 22:44 -0400
        Re: Software's Weak Link is Code "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-07-25 16:45 -0400
          Re: Software's Weak Link is Code Celeros <kerneels@gmail.com> - 2014-07-26 23:08 +0200
    Re: Software's Weak Link is Code "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-07-24 00:04 +0100
      Re: Software's Weak Link is Code Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 08:25 -0700
  Re: Software's Weak Link is Code "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-07-24 03:26 -0400
    Re: Software's Weak Link is Code Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 01:32 -0700
    Re: Software's Weak Link is Code Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-07-26 08:17 +0000
      Re: Software's Weak Link is Code "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-07-26 05:39 -0400
        Re: Software's Weak Link is Code visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2014-07-26 17:37 -0700
  Re: Software's Weak Link is Code anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-07-24 13:45 +0000

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