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I think it would be great to see a day when the relative abstraction distance between Ruby and C is negligible compared to the available programming abstraction
by sofal 18y ago
I think it would be great to see a day when the relative abstraction distance between Ruby and C is negligible compared to the available programming abstractions. A day when you can tell computers what to do in English, and when commanding the machine via any articulate and pedantic programming language is thought to teach one about the fundamentals of a computer.
- jcromartie 18y agoI don't want to program in English... "The horse rode past the barn fell."
- sofal 18y agoI don't want to program in English... When you tell someone to do something, do you lament the fact that you can't tell them in a programming language, detailing every single step precisely? When I talk about programming in English, it is not the kind of "programming" that you're used to. It's obviously subject to all the ambiguities and interpretation problems that humans have, yet somehow we manage to get by pretty well with it. I didn't think I would have to actually explain that. Do you want me to put it to you in a programming language?