Why do people faint at the sight of plain-text code?
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No-one said they had to be easily read for humans.
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I found the web dev
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It... Kind of was though, IR gives us a way to translate higher level concepts to lower (but not the lowest) level representation. It also gives us a way to optimize before machine translation.
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Text code is overwhelming
Text is overwhelming (for me)
I like spaced out, low density information. I can process it better.
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Or Malebolge.
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obviously the sadistic ones! those PLs certainly weren't made for the computer's benefit
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imho they're still made for humans. But the goal is to discuss them rather than code with them n_n
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For me, I think it's that most common-language things that I happen to look at are 500-line+ with non-obvious short names (initialisms? might be an issue with low-level). Some of it might be down to optimization or language features/requirements, or not using libraries. Though I also don't hate whitespace so it may just be my brain.
The other side of the coin is that interpreted languages (being more readable) are slower(+single-threaded) and have other limitations/issues. I have some hope that Python's update with JIT and no-GIL may change that, but integrating it into other tools is still an issue so I haven't looked into it.
The one language that has clicked for me is Nim-lang (compiles-to-C, interop). I haven't done enough real projects, but I like the syntactic sugar and UFCS. Not sure if that's the best way to say it, but it's like the options that exist can be used to make code more concise. Something that seems small like how you can write conditions or loops can make a big difference.
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Masochists
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"No-code", scratch, etc
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'Nocode', scratch, NODE-red, etc.
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import common_sense from toolbox import AllenKey <snip> allen_key = AllenKey(size=4mm) allen_key.screw(screw1) -
It took me looking at unfamiliar programming languages and realizing that I could read most of them without really knowing them for me to realize I probably could learn to at least read another language.
It's been years since then and I'm still probably shit at Spanish, but just like programming languages regular languages were made by humans to communicate with other humans, you're capable of understanding any of them given a reasonable amount of time and guidance.
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you just made me inadvertently realize that's exactly why AI will never take development jobs.
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you just made me inadvertently realize that's exactly why AI will never take development jobs.
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They are very much aimed at humans.
Crafted to hurt humans, but still.
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Real programmers modulate their voice and scream precisely into the microphone such that the recorded audio file is valid machine code.
