Star Simpson

I have been thinking about the paradigm of "commands" in programming, and whether softer/more 'polite' language could improve the machine UI

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?

Wouldn't, therefore, it make sense to explore programming languages that sound less oriented to "telling machines what to do"?

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

And if perhaps in your social context you're more used to requests than commands, a programming language could be created in that context