PROGRAMMING : Natural Programming Languages
Slashdot referenced an IBM article about research in to Natural Language Programming. Quite an interesting project, especially their examples of debugging Alice with 'why didn't' and 'why did' questions. They also have a novice (read 10 year old) programmer's environment called HANDS which looks kind of interesting, though it's hard to imagine it scalling particularly...
My fascination with Zoomable interfaces makes these kind of ideas more interesting for me - I can imagine a Zoomable interface that provides some scalability to the aforementioned programming environments - and if you built it into the actual interface then you have natural scripting that everyone can use without a second thought while editing documents as they normally do.
A ubiquitous scripting language if you like - hopefully dissapearing into the background like the rest of the interface.
My fascination with Zoomable interfaces makes these kind of ideas more interesting for me - I can imagine a Zoomable interface that provides some scalability to the aforementioned programming environments - and if you built it into the actual interface then you have natural scripting that everyone can use without a second thought while editing documents as they normally do.
A ubiquitous scripting language if you like - hopefully dissapearing into the background like the rest of the interface.
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