Comment by yencabulator
16 days ago
Are you saying it's impossible to program without first formulating a natural language sentence? That sounds dubious at the very least.
16 days ago
Are you saying it's impossible to program without first formulating a natural language sentence? That sounds dubious at the very least.
That's a really deep question. Obviously there are types of creativity that don't require words, like painting or sculpting, or improvising music, but I'm having real difficulty imagining programming without something at least resembling natural language. The closest my imagination gets is Scratch/Blockly, but even then you're essentially creating an AST composed out of statements and expressions, even if they're pictorial.
Can you imagine the (intentional) creation of a program entirely without language?
Or, I suppose, if you're ok with it not being intentional, you can program via an evolutionary algorithm - is that what you have in mind?
I think you're the kind of person who has an internal voice talking in their head, and can't imagine any other kind of thought?
Math is all about abstract shapes and properties, for me. So is much of programming.
Yeah, just chiming in to say the same. Essentially all of my thinking is geometric in nature. The only time I have any internal monologue is as a mnemonic device to remember a sequence.
Yeah, I suppose you're right and I'd love to understand more. Do you imagine a modality of programming a computer in an abstract (pictorial? diagrammatic?) way that fully bypasses the current need to form statements?
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