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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)

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Re: To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)

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The project is stalled, because at some point after i developed it, the project langchain-rust appeared and gained traction. My project is not very advanced compared to langchain, i used regexes while langchain uses tree-sitter. Langchain-rust for the moment supports only 6 languages, and not even one lisp, like Elisp, but it's tree-sitter integration means it can be extended easily to many many other languages. Also…

Interesting! Thanks for the explanation. My needs/usages are far more prosaic, and I am barely a programmer, so the basic .dtx and package which makes documented .tex amenable to use with other languages and a couple of decent plain text editors is working for me. I'd love for there to be broader support --- I considered quarto and it seemed quite promising, and I wish that LyX had a mode specifically for this, and f…

>What does an algorithm look like?

That's a million dollar question. Can code be represented in a visual way? Bret Victor tries to give an answer to that. I don't personally think that it can, but there is sure a way, to represent some parts of a program in a visual way.

People use literate programming today in Emacs, in case you are interested. I strongly recommend to try Emacs, LLM's can write Elisp for you, to automate parts of your workflow.

Re: To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting! Thanks for the explanation. My needs/usages are far more prosaic, and I am barely a programmer, so the basic .dtx and package which makes documented .tex amenable to use with other languages and a couple of decent plain text editors is working for me. I'd love for there to be broader support --- I considered quarto and it seemed quite promising, and I wish that LyX had a mode specifically for this, and f…

>What does an algorithm look like? That's a million dollar question. Can code be represented in a visual way? Bret Victor tries to give an answer to that. I don't personally think that it can, but there is sure a way, to represent some parts of a program in a visual way. People use literate programming today in Emacs, in case you are interested. I strongly recommend to try Emacs, LLM's can write Elisp for you, to aut…

Will look up Bret Victor --- thanks!

Unfortunately, while I like emacs-style keyboard bindings in Mac OS X, I prefer to use a stylus and often write things out by hand and use handwriting recognition to convert to text (hence my interest in visual programming languages) --- very much envied a co-worker (who was one of two folks I've met aside from TeX conferences who had read TAoCP) who just started it up at the beginning of the day and got all his work done in it during the course of the day.

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