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Why in the world would we want to make raw data to language? You use a spreadsheet for your budget. You use an accounting system at work. Yet you use a text
by david927 17y ago
Why in the world would we want to make raw data to language?
You use a spreadsheet for your budget. You use an accounting system at work. Yet you use a text file to describe the mission critical rules your business runs on.
This is the misconception we've run into: that we think we need to move programming languages to human languages, when human languages are bereft of concision and determinant qualities. We need to move in the opposite direction.
- alextgordon 17y agoSo let's assume we manage to tackle all the problems associated with non-textual formats (merging, compatibility, opacity, etc). What does this new way of programming do better?
- david927 17y agoI would say it the other way. When we can really free ourselves from text, we'll have made the main core changes that have been needed to make programming better.