Dave posted A note to C developers on Scripting News today.

The points (and links) are interesting. I concur that 'view source' is the foundation upon which much of the web is built. If it were not for the fact that people could learn from their peers by checking out how web sites were built from HTML and Javascript, and scripting environments such as perl, python, php, zope, etc., I doubt that the web would have grown at the phenomenal rate it has.

It's fascinating to see the new guard of UserTalk scripters coming onstream due to the 'view source' aspect of Radio. It's like the old days of Frontier. I've often written that Frontier/UseTalk is the environment that I find must fun (and productive) due in part to the fact that it's a typical scripting language (i.e it's in essence an interpreted language). But it's the integrated, peristent, object database that really turns my head. It's a very powerful, and fun, combination.

At Wednesday's lecture I asserted that UserTalk was probably one of the least well-known, and under-appreciated, languages - ever. I believe this will change as more and more Radio users lift the hood on the underlying technology and people start to explore it's potential. Time will tell if there will be sufficient demand for a second book on Frontier/Radio/UserTalk to complement Matt Neuburg's excellent textbook.

How different things would be if Radio had been shipped with the 'source code' removed!