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Re:We should revisit literate programming in the agent era by caseyohara on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:32PM (#47304222)
> People spoke in a particular way, say 60 years ago, that left very little room for interpretation of what they meant. The same cannot be said today.

Surely you don’t mean everyone in the 1960s spoke directly, free of metaphor or euphemism or nuance or doublespeak or dog whistle or any other kind or ambiguity? Then why are there people who dedicate their entire life to interpreting religious texts and the Constitution?

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Re:We should revisit literate programming in the agent era by k32k on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:57PM (#47304377)
Compared with today, on average, they did.

There's a generation of people that 'typ lyk dis'.

So yes.

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Re:We should revisit literate programming in the agent era by jyounker on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:54AM (#47305305)
Your point is less persuasive than you intended. You complain about linguistic ambiguity, but then you show an example of sensible spelling reform.
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Re:We should revisit literate programming in the agent era by ChrisGreenHeur on Monday March 09, 2026 @03:46AM (#47305936)
that example is regarding syntax, and is actually no worse than any other
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