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Re:Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today by jfaucett on Monday June 20, 2016 @02:27PM (#11940066)
Hi Alan,

Do you think we'll ever have a programming language that isn't fully text based and gets closer to a direct mapping of our own thoughts than current systems? If so any ideas what properties this language would have?

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Re:Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today by hemisphere on Monday June 20, 2016 @10:04PM (#11943022)
A few years ago I asked another visionary, Marvin Minsky, if he thought that, in the future, we'd do our programming in something other than plain text. He said, "If it's good enough for Aristotle and Plato, it's good enough for me."

RIP, Professor.

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