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Help. C++ Smalltalk. Smalltalk. Design Patterns. Factor: a practical stack language - Swiftfox. MF Bliki: IllustrativeProgramming - Swiftfox. Programming platforms tags: What's the most common programming language in the world? I'm not sure how you could go about measuring this, but one thing you'd need to do is consider what we mean by programming. My candidate answer considers that the most popular programming language is one used widely by people who do not consider themselves as programmers. This language is Excel, or more generally spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are easily used for small tasks, but are also used for surprisingly complex and important things. In general, we've not had much success with programming languages for these kind of LayProgrammers. One property of spreadsheets, that I think is important, is its ability to fuse the execution of the program together with its definition. Using examples as a first class element of a programming environment crops up in other places - UI designers also have this.

So why do I feel we need this particular Neologism? I don't think that illustrative programming is all goodness. Explore, Organize, Thrive - Wagn - Swiftfox. The free encyclopedia - Swiftfox.