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I will add, remember the problem is not with text itself. I'm not saying "text bad visual shiny fancy stuff good". Text is great. But "textual representation"
by borplk 9y ago
I will add, remember the problem is not with text itself.
I'm not saying "text bad visual shiny fancy stuff good".
Text is great. But "textual representation" of a rich model/object is different than text being the very raw basic building block of something.
When text is your basic block it means we end up effectively sharing a language with the computers.
This creates lots of complex and somewhat unnecessary problems (for example "syntax", and "parsing").
It's also inappropriate because if you try to make the language better for the computers it quickly gets noisy and unreadable for humans.
If you try to make it good for humans it becomes difficult and ambiguous for the computers.
So you end up in this pointless fight.
You have to detach these two things from each other so that the computers can have a precise representation for themselves and humans can have a adaptable dynamic representation for themselves.