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Why Is Writing Hard?
- For the people who’ve figured out the right incantations to type and buttons-buried-in-submenus to click, computers can automate administrivia, surface information, and make them feel “more fully participant in the future”. But getting there is an arduous journey, and many people get in a place where computers just make things harder. The experienc... See more
from Page not found • The Blog of Feifan Zhou by Feifan Zhou
Tanuj and added
- The reason I think this is that the hard part of coding has always been humans getting clear on how they want a thing to work and then presenting this to a machine for execution. This is why we write code in programming language rather than natural language; programming language is an extension of formal logic and lets humans express with exactitud... See more
from Ask & Adjust: The Future of Productivity Interfaces by Zach Lloyd
Shachaf Rodberg added
i like how the use of syntax puts constraints
If, as the brilliant mathematician Edsger Dijkstra said, “computing is about controlling complexity,” then the body of work produced by the computer industry’s programmers has entirely failed.
from Criticizing Computers by Anna-Sofia Lesiv
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