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A Better Way To Program
mikejuk writes "This video will change the way you think about programming. The argument is clear and impressive — it suggest that we really are building programs with one hand tied behind our backs. Programmers can only understand their code by pretending to be computers and running it in their heads. As this video shows, this is increadibly inefficient and, as we generally have a computer in front of us, why not use it to help us understand the code? The key is probably interactivity. Don't wait for a compile to complete to see what effect your code has on things — if you can see it in real time then programming becomes much easier."
Yes, if only there were existing systems that worked that way. Such as the Lisp environment from 1958 or the Smalltalk environment from 1976. Such revolutionary new ideas about programming! I wonder if he will invent automatic refactoring tools next...
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Visualise them kernel then. They didn't have any problems in The Matrix.
It is the most worthless, dumbass thing I've ever had to sit through.
It's just another "wouldn't it be great if computers programmed themselves" video by someone too stupid to tie their own shoes.
I know what the code I'm writing is going to do *before* I start writing it, as I hope for the love of god most programmers do.
In fact, the biggest plague on programming ever has been this concept that changing what you want fifteen times along the way is perfectly okay and we just need to adapt methods to that idiocy. You don't need any of this crap if you just know what you want ahead of time.
I'd guess it slips a $1 and $2 bill into a stripper's titties by the looks of it.
What about, say, kernel programming?
If you enter a syntax error, you get a video of Orville Redenbacher ripping you a new one.
All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.