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✨ Jean Yang ✨
@jeanqasaur
Something interesting came up in the #PLTalk discussion with
@rob_rix
last Friday. Neither of us think of programs as visual or visualize programs in our heads. The chat was really surprised! I'm curious how common this is among engineers. Do you visualize programs in your head?
  • Programs are visual
    42.5%
  • Programs are not visual
    57.5%
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eleanor 🌻
@zornsllama
hot take: programs *are* visual but I don't think of them that way (it takes a conscious effort for me to like, make a graph out of them, but when I do the structure is obvious)
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
I can visualise the structure if I make an effort - the layered hypergraphs etc. - I just wish there were better tools that did helped me work with different, graphical projections of my code, and let me share that view with others. Stuff like Glamorous Toolkit, for example.
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Replying to
@brendanzab
@jeanqasaur
and
@rob_rix
Hmm, I think this is a good point: twitter.com/mattsiegel/sta - I think _syntax_ can be visual. But maybe the idea is to transfer the semantic topology of programs into our brains or compilers, and to let us externalise it so that we don't need to hold it in all our heads at once.
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Matt
@mattsiegel
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Replying to @jeanqasaur and @rob_rix
🤔 spatial but not visual, if that makes sense
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