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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I never had an issue with commands and errors. I would probably find it more frustrating if the computer were "polite"
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I'm a finance prof. But I write code for research. Sometimes I'd like an empowering error message like "There's probably a way to do that."
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That'd be great!
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But saying you had no problem with commands personally doesn't mean that this wouldn't be worthwhile for someone else
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Of course not! In fact many of my students have a fear of being told they are mistaken that I can scarcely understand.
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As for "commands" though, there's no way around it - the computer really has no choice but to comply with the requests it understands. No?
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