Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by kareemamin 3161 days ago
yes absolutely! I think things along the idea of programming by example like Flash Fill https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/flash-fill-fl... or direct manipulation of graphics or other objects would be very interesting. I think in order to move away from text it would be important to find use-cases where other forms of describing computational processes would give the person an order of magnitude more leverage over doing the same thing in text. The idea of programming by example would make it so that testing skills are more valuable than breaking down a process into logical steps.