[End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued by bright-eyed computer science visionaries. Its rich history reaches back to the 1960s with programming environments like Smalltalk and Logo. Notable successes since then include Unix, the spreadsheet, Hypercard, and HTML. And today, newcomers like Zapier, Coda, and Siri Shortcuts are trying their own approaches to automation and dynamic modeling.
The dream of “end-user programming” is still too far away. Let’s set our sights on “end-programmer programming” first.
from 📝 Blog End-programmer Programming
