michael_nielsen

What would make interfaces made by children more powerful?

Whatever it is that means languages made by children are more powerful than those made by adults, as argued in the paper I linked.

It sounds too magical to me - firstly, Hawaiian Pidgin is a very imprecise language, and the more important an interface is, the more precise it must be. Also, designing a useful interface for a task takes nuanced understanding of said task, which children generally don't have.

Have you read the paper?

Sorry, the abstract was all I had time for.

Your argument seems irrelevant. Who cares if an interface is more precise than a pidgin (even if that's true in all ways, which it rarely is)? Precision != power, not even close.

And your second sentence is also not relevant, no more than arguing that many advanced words added to English are added by (adult) specialists. Yes, but the deeper structures were (if the paper is right) probably constructed by children.

Put another way, your argument seems like observing that most books are written by adults. True, but not relevant to the origin of the language, and its suitability for use as a substrate for thought and communication.