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Maybe not this extreme, but we can use natural language as more like programming languages (by reducing vagueness). Corollary of this: we should mandate that p

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > we should mandate that politicians and officials all learn programming language and speak rather like programmers, so that they can say less BS. I've rarely met anyone who uses natural language as imprecisely as most programmers, so I'm not sure that you want what you literally describe. Also, politicians (at least in the US) are disproportionately lawyers, who happen to be professionally trained in the precise use of natural language. They often use this, when they aren't outright lying, to say things that make very different commitments than casual listeners not themselves trained in the precise use and interpretation of natural language will initially interpret, so what you really need is to train their audience in critical listening.
  • pydry 6y ago
    >I've rarely met anyone who uses natural language as imprecisely as most programmers I've rarely met a good programmer that didn't communicate with precision. Ive met lots of bad programmers who write unreadable code though, who couldnt communicate clearly by speech or writing either.
• ThrowawayR2 6y ago
  > "Corollary of this: we should mandate that politicians and officials all learn programming language and speak rather like programmers, so that they can say less BS." Unrealistic since most programmers I've met can't even manage to put together a logically coherent document or presentation without a lot of prompting.