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Dian Fay • Edited

I think art is not the place to be looking for inspiration -- programming languages, while quite restricted in scope, are languages, and in thousands of years we've only come up with so many modes of linguistic expression. It's pretty much just speech and writing, and writing is clearly the superior of the two for this kind of purpose.

Although it's interesting to consider programming a computer by means of tying quipu...

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Andrew (he/him)

A quiputer. 😉

I suppose that's true re: writing. But surely there's at least a better way to communicate these ideas.

Sometimes I find myself looking at the array of languages and paradigms available and thinking "that's it?" But then again, the book was invented a few hundred years ago and that's still going strong.

Maybe people will still be writing FORTRAN in 2520.

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Ben Halpern

the book was invented a few hundred years ago and that's still going strong.

I do most of my book reading through audiobook these days.

I wonder if a programming language optimized for audio consumption that can be effectively reviewed through one's ears.

idea.🤔

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Andrew (he/him)

Morgan Freeman reading LISP sounds terrible and soothing at the same time.

"Open parenthesis, open parenthesis, open parenthesis..."

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Peyton McGinnis

Haha!