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Post by trentlott »

steveklabnik wrote: post #7

What's funny about this is that every comment here is calling this useless, yet it's something that's very much in the hacker spirit. Utility is not the end goal of everything.

HN is solely for venture capitalism via phone and webapps, thanks.

And maybe Gladwell-esque light stories suitable for our Powerpoint pitch.

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Post by chrismonsanto »

dpcan wrote: post #49

I like it. And I always wondered why a programming language couldn't exist to work as follows: Start Run at 60 frames per second and do Clear the screen Draw a rectangle at (10,10) with size (100,50) and rotate it 20 degrees Repeat End Or something along those lines - hopefully you get my point. This would be fun for prototyping. I could just speak to my computer and have it translate my plain english into a working…

Seems similar to Processing (http://processing.org/)

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Post by nightpool »

dpcan wrote: post #49

I like it. And I always wondered why a programming language couldn't exist to work as follows: Start Run at 60 frames per second and do Clear the screen Draw a rectangle at (10,10) with size (100,50) and rotate it 20 degrees Repeat End Or something along those lines - hopefully you get my point. This would be fun for prototyping. I could just speak to my computer and have it translate my plain english into a working…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_programming Plenty of things already work like this. For example, check out Inform 7 http://inform7.com/ or the Robot C natural language module http://www.robotc.net/NaturalLanguage/. Or, more generally, LOGO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%2...

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Post by dbpatterson »

dpcan wrote: post #49

I like it. And I always wondered why a programming language couldn't exist to work as follows: Start Run at 60 frames per second and do Clear the screen Draw a rectangle at (10,10) with size (100,50) and rotate it 20 degrees Repeat End Or something along those lines - hopefully you get my point. This would be fun for prototyping. I could just speak to my computer and have it translate my plain english into a working…

Probably because programming languages require a precision that natural languages do not have, so you end up having english words that only mean a certain form of their meaning, and completely broken grammar (and/or near impossible to implement). At which point, you are just confusing people by saying "it is like english" (or X natural language).

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Post by codezero »

trentlott wrote: post #51
steveklabnik wrote: post #7

What's funny about this is that every comment here is calling this useless, yet it's something that's very much in the hacker spirit. Utility is not the end goal of everything.

HN is solely for venture capitalism via phone and webapps, thanks. And maybe Gladwell-esque light stories suitable for our Powerpoint pitch.

Thank you, Poe's Law.

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Post by [deleted] »

jk211e wrote: post #9
steveklabnik wrote: post #7

What's funny about this is that every comment here is calling this useless, yet it's something that's very much in the hacker spirit. Utility is not the end goal of everything.

great if it helps you learn something. shouldn't be on hn front page.

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Post by krapp »

harel wrote: post #18

This is really funny. I quite enjoyed it. I wouldn't take any serious comments here seriously. Unfortunately the distribution of sense-of-humour in the world is not even. Some get a bigger chunk of it than others. The next time anyone mentions CoffeeScript to me, I'll send them here. Much better.

The joke is here, it just isn't evenly distributed.

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Post by neckro23 »

dpcan wrote: post #49

I like it. And I always wondered why a programming language couldn't exist to work as follows: Start Run at 60 frames per second and do Clear the screen Draw a rectangle at (10,10) with size (100,50) and rotate it 20 degrees Repeat End Or something along those lines - hopefully you get my point. This would be fun for prototyping. I could just speak to my computer and have it translate my plain english into a working…

Lingo, the scripting language for Macromedia Director, looked almost exactly like that. It was a real pain in the ass as soon as you tried to do anything more advanced than, say, drawing rectangles.
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