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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You mean like, non-imperative paradigms? There's dataflow & constraint programming, both more human-friendly but often ghettoized
Not really. I think this could possibly be as facile as imperatives structures as requests. Like an extension of "try..catch" forms
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Yeah sorry now I read the whole thread and I see where you're going with it
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Now that I think about it, a conversation metaphor especially makes sense over network boundaries. Fits imperative rather poorly
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hypertalk-ish: ask server to please add numbers with x as 2, y as 3 if server is silent … if server says sorry …
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