Re:Show HN: YinYang, a usable live programming language
by yaxu on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @04:38AM
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I don't see a need for pessimism there. If speech is text plus prosody, then I see adding a prosodic channel to the programming interface as augmenting/enriching programming languages, not replacing them. I also don't think speech is 'special' in terms of intelligence (e.g. Deaf people are just as intelligent), so enriching text could just as easily come in a different form of imagery (prosody being a form of mental imagery) such as drawing. And that is the area that Victor is working in.
I feel the same way.
> But maybe your more approach is more optimistic in this regard, in that you're finding ways that could improve programmers' lives now.
I'm actually pessimistic that we have much time to innovate. I see programming as a viable profession only for at most another 20 years; by then speech dialogue based systems (aka AIs) are advanced enough to take over on what were programming these tasks before.