I can't agree with the article. Picking a lang. by syntax is like choosing a car by radio presets.
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No, not a practical one that I am able to construct with my keyboard. I concede we're to some degree hamstrung by our input devices.
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what if our keyboards had a "construct uuid" button?
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What if we could see relationships instead of simple names. Have you checked out Prolog? Names aren't so useful there.
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so instead of cat(X), d6bee5a3-1236-4174-9fbd-6844a446460c(c28f8392-9785-4ea3-b4f7-fe5b6892a5e7)?
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If you can get a computer to build a graph for you and manipulate nodes, why not? Why must text be the lowest common denominator?
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so there is another tool that uses human-readable names?
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I see your point. I'm not saying names are irrelevant. Just hugely overemphasized to the point of eclipsing other possibilities.
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I can agree that semantics are often under-emphasized :)
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