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Is there a programming model that meets the criteria of "how people think"?

• dnautics 5y ago
  Functional programming. You don't have to have a long memory attention span to understand how you data are changing. It's the case that humans can only keep some small number of things in their head, no?
• pjc50 5y ago
  I'm very much of the opinion that you're not going to find a single answer to "how people think". It's unobservable and not really subject to social pressure, so there's going to be a huge variance in mental models. That's why you get these unproductive discussions about which is best. It's like having some red-green-colorblind people and some blue-yellow-colorblind people try to agree on wallpaper for you.
  • TeMPOraL 5y ago
    > It's like having some red-green-colorblind people and some blue-yellow-colorblind people try to agree on wallpaper for you. I agree, it's exactly like that. It's like that one person you're annoyed with because they keep saying the colors don't match, even though they obviously do, but you don't know that person is tetrachromatic - you don't even know tetrachromacy is a thing. Or, "picture this in your mind" meaning something completely different to people with aphantasia (like myself), and most people with and without it are not even aware aphantasia is a thing, and just assume everyone imagines (or doesn't) the world the way they do. Same thing with internal monologue - some people talk to themselves in their heads all the time (I'm in this group), others don't, and - again - most aren't aware there are people who aren't like them. The more we talk and learn about each other, the more it seems our internal experiences are pretty diverse.