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Here's Tower of Hanoi written in brainfck. http://www.clifford.at/bfcpu/hanoi.bf

Scratch is awesome and as I mention in the article, one of the strengths of visual programming is that it requires much less training before you are able to actually "do" stuff. However, just because you can* do something doesn't mean it's the most optimal or the easiest way to do it.

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It can the most optimal and easiest way if you just want to solve your problem without spending several years learning how to program.

Since when does it take several years learning to program to solve a problem?

http://scratch.mit.edu/channel/featured

1) Pick one of these at random. 2) Assign a person who knows nothing about programming to write it in C. 3) See how long it takes.

Also 4) the person you're assigning to the job is a third grader.

Why does it need to be C?

Why not python or javascript?

Feel free to run the experiment. No matter what text-based language you use, it's going to take a helluva lot longer than Scratch. That is the actual point here.

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