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0 pointsAstralStorm7y ago0 comments

Programming does not have a nice alphabet because it has to be unambiguously defined for stupid computers to understand.

There is no such thing as a programming alphabet.

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vanderZwan7y ago

Do you have trouble with metaphor, perhaps?

Because "alphabet" happens to be the fundamental writing system for human languages and therefore crucial to enabling literacy. I am simply using it as an analogy for us needing better programming environments to enable better programming literacy.

AstralStormOP7y ago

How would that better environment look?

So far, we had fails like Squeak and relatively low succeesses like Jupyter and Delphi.

The root of the problem is that humans communicate in extremely ambiguous and convoluted ways which makes programming quite atypical.

vanderZwan7y ago

> How would that better environment look?

Come on, what kind of question is that? If I knew how to improve it I wouldn't be chatting here with you, I would be doing something about it.

Also, you should probably watch Bret Victor's videos, especially "The Future of Programming", if only to realize that we have been improving the programming environment since the days of punch cards, and are still in the process of doing so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4

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vanderZwan7y ago

Do you have trouble with metaphor, perhaps?

AstralStormOP7y ago

How would that better environment look?

So far, we had fails like Squeak and relatively low succeesses like Jupyter and Delphi.

The root of the problem is that humans communicate in extremely ambiguous and convoluted ways which makes programming quite atypical.

vanderZwan7y ago

> How would that better environment look?

Come on, what kind of question is that? If I knew how to improve it I wouldn't be chatting here with you, I would be doing something about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4

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