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 think of them as (1) not intimidating, (2) mechanistic, and (3) always hiding complexity and nondeterminism that may, may not matter atm.
I think this mindset is correct & required for programming. I'm wondering if modifying the language of programming cld guide one's mindset
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So, I think that it COULD, and that it is a good idea. I think of this as the computer attempting not to be "human", but helping expose 1/n
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the level of abstraction I'm NOT dealing with to the degree I need right then, and helping point me in the right direction. Even just 2/n
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knowing WHERE in some source code I should poke around is an example of a huge win. segfault vs. stack trace is a huge difference! 3/3
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Yeah! And I think these things are compatible
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I forget, have you done much with Rust or Elm or any of the langs that are really embracing "let's have good error messages"?
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