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I want a programming language which is as effortless as thought.

• edw519 17y ago
  Huh? Programming is easy. Thought is hard.
  • asimjalis 17y ago
    I guess what I was trying to say was unclear. Or maybe I am the only one who has this problem. I find that programming languages get in the way of thinking. There is all this extra work involved in typing up the program and making it real. Even a minimalist language like Python seems too much (for example, it makes me list self as an argument for each method).
    • asimjalis 17y ago
      There is a kind of impedance mismatch between computers and humans. Now languages bridge that to some extent. But it is still there. So my wish is a language that eliminates it.
  • bkovitz 17y ago
    I want wisecracks to have less power to derail thoughtful conversation. Not an easy problem to solve, BTW. There is a good reason why thoughtful conversation is so easy to derail: it asks for a lot of mental bandwidth, and the competition for bandwidth is fierce. A wisecrack gets its message across in almost no bandwidth, takes no effort to appreciate, and satisfies the primal human urge to see someone else humiliated.
• kloro 17y ago
  hopefully you are already separating creation of a program from coding it. if you are not making the separation, you will find any programming language a visit to hell. with this separation, use of most programming languages is a pleasant diversion.