Re: [Hecl-devel] back from mwc
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From: Mario Z. <mar...@ya...> - 2009-03-10 04:03:26
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>> the best way to go around it. Most of them end thinking that pure java plus >> some helper tool like Polish would do OK. >This could be called "survivorship bias";-) In the sense that pretty >much anyone who has done anything with mobile stuff has to be able to >code in Java, so of course they're not terribly unhappy with it. > >Part of what I want to do with Hecl is extend mobile programming to >people who are not competent with Java and want to something small and >simple. This is very nice but I still think it is meant for programmers. I mean, I don't think some non-programmer would run into Hecl in an easy way. But the fact that you don't have to understand mobile programming as it traditionally is in order to write a Hecl program is just a huge step itself! >As well as, of course, people like yourself and Wolfgang, who realize >that having a scripting engine is a really cool way to solve certain >kinds of problems. Thanks! :) >> So I think in order for regular programmers (with regular real world >> problems to solve) to understand what's the advantages about mobile >> scripting and Hecl and basically what is it good for or how to >> differentiate, is to make some good examples where it's definitely better to >> use scripting rather than writing pure java vertical applications. >Yep, more examples would be good! Do you have one in mind?:-) Haha actually anything will do, in the sense, the example code base out there for java is rather huge, so it's relatively easy to find some example about something you want to do, in the sense someone has probably ran into the same issue before so it's likely for a regular programmer to find examples that will help solving problems. I don't know, maybe writing feed readers, calculators, and maybe simple games in Hecl would bring more traction, probably. >> If you think of it, Hecl is being communicated to the world as "the mobile >> scripting language", I think this leads to programmers to first identify the >> need of a mobile scripting language and only then they would find out about >> Hecl. Just to rephrase: programmers first need to come up with the idea of >> "Hey, what I need to solve my vertical need is a mobile scripting language", >> and then they would go googling for "mobile scripting language" and come up >> with Hecl. Sort of that thing is what actually happened to me when I thought >> of extending the functionality in Prosciutto to whatever the user would like >> to define: I needed a mobile scripting language so scripts could be >> downloaded OTA and went Google for it and found Hecl :) >Hrm... yeah, that's a good point. Maybe I should write an article about it. I'd love to read about it! I think promoting any project is an issue. I'm all new to this stuff as you know by now. In fact I get more hits to the prosciutto website from people searching for ham than from programmers :p |