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This paradigm of incrementally reflecting interpretation and ambiguity seems like a consistently important pattern in end-user programming. (Excited that Chris is back at it!)

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Chris Granger

@ibdknox

· Nov 17, 2020

A first peek at something new we're working on. What if programs spoke *our* language?

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just wait, it gets a lot more exciting from here :D

/usr/bin/env Bryan Jenks

@tallguyjenks

Nov 17, 2020

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Looks like a cool mechanism to also teach logical patterns to non-programmers to see how the request needs to be structured for a computer to understand even with this level 💯 abstraction

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Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Nov 17, 2020

A reasonable question! The traditional argument here is that the most popular and important programming environment in the world is actually Excel, and that it’s well worth trying to create more things in that niche, despite it having the properties you just described.

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Partial functions are so great!