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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by Areading314 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:56PM (#25786833)
I'm also very interested in this problem. Have you explored other paradigms to specify the program outside of text?
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by nemo1618 on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:54AM (#25787492)
As in, visual programming? I don't have a ton of experience with that, but my gut says that once the problems reach a certain degree of complexity, it would hurt more than help.

Or, how about vocal programming? I wonder if, in practice, dictation might be faster than typing? :)

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by Areading314 on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:59AM (#25787534)
Yes, recently I've been interested in visual programming paradigms like scratch. After all Python was originally supposed to be a teaching language. Maybe in 2030 the newest generations will find text files archaic and not expressive compared to new types of visual, vocal, or even "video" animated languages.
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