The Semantic Gap

re: The Semantic Gap

Hal Rottenberg — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:09:32 GMT

Didn't I just say all that? ;)

Glad I was able to inspire you--great read as usual. And I'm glad you elaborated on my implied point: it's not Perl vs PowerShell at all. It's the OLD WAY versus the NEW WAY; and us users love your new way!

re: The Semantic Gap

Mike Gale — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:20:25 GMT

Language designers should read this article and grok what it means for them. Discuss it, extend it, change it and disagree, but at least read it.

(There's too much "conspicuous complexity" and "deliberate cleverness" in the software world. And dumb, obstructive names for stuff that is really just obvious when you look at the issues.)

re: The Semantic Gap

TWNZ — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:07:00 GMT

$Wot | % { Zyz $_ }

Almost poetry as wot I want is retrieved from the Web and scanned for word frequency ...

Excellent !

re: The Semantic Gap

anonymous — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:53:38 GMT

Hey Powershell team, please please port at least v1 of PowerShell to Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Professional.

re: The Semantic Gap

PowerShellTeam — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:47:21 GMT

> Hey Powershell team, please please port at least v1 of PowerShell to Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Professional.

We really wanted to get it ported back to W2K but lost that battle.

Sorry.

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re: The Semantic Gap

Alexi — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:17:55 GMT

Great read, I'm glad that there are people in the world who take the teachings of Donald Norman to heart.

Still, call it 'creeping functionality' if you will, but my gut response to powershell the first time I saw it was the following:

set-item -path alias:grep -value select-string

re: The Semantic Gap

aenagy — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:41:19 GMT

What is a "composition model"? What are ISA and HASA in this context?