I have been thinking about the paradigm of "commands" in programming, and whether softer/more 'polite' language could improve the machine UI
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Bear with me. Do you see computers as intimidating, did people you know see them this way? Or are they dumb machines, tools, automata?
Given Conway's Law, haven't machines been created in the mentality of the pioneers of computing? Are these languages not their languages?
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Wouldn't, therefore, it make sense to explore programming languages that sound less oriented to "telling machines what to do"?
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It's v difficult to compress these thoughts for twtr I'm just wondering if commanding language in some sense is a needless barrier to entry
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And if perhaps in your social context you're more used to requests than commands, a programming language could be created in that context
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Maybe this is all really out there or syntactic sugar or just too much social theory for real computing but hey, Twitter, just a thought
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Basically this thought germinated when I did thishttps://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/380857763733073920 …
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It was pretty much a whim at the time but I felt this huge relief when I "please !!" instead of "sudo !!" - it fit better as language
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So what will this shell be called , maybe lovsh or something warm and fuzzy like that?
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I'm not sure that request-based conversational patterns are strictly cast in a setting of feelings of love, per se
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Yes. I am definitely a geek of my times. Not sure if I've thought about the "their language" question or not
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