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How is it harmful? > A program is whatever the human beings who maintain that program operate against This does neither invalidate the statement that "Program
by ablob 4y ago
How is it harmful?
> A program is whatever the human beings who maintain that program operate against
This does neither invalidate the statement that "Program is not a text", nor that "[it is] a model".
> And for the moment that's source code.
How is wanting to change that harmful? Source code can have flaws like ambiguity (see C++'s need for typename).
Deeming a call for improvement on the existing representation of a program harmful is a fine way to stop any progress at all.
We would still be putting in raw numbers into memory with that attitude.
On another note: I think what matters is what the computer actually does. Whatever I, as a human, read and interpret has no meaning at all if the computer decides to "read and interpret" it differently. And the only limit with representing what the computer actually does should be your imagination.
- preseinger 4y ago> I think what matters is what the computer actually does. Whatever I, as a human, read and interpret has no meaning at all if the computer decides to "read and interpret" it differently. And the only limit with representing what the computer actually does should be your imagination. Well, I understand this perspective, but I judge it to be backwards. The computer should be understood as secondary to the human. Mechanical sympathy is necessary for useful software but the goal of software must not be mechanical.