Post #1308490
2026-02-19 22:13 UTC
@ShadSterling @agowa338 @blinry that's one of the very long term goals of my post-scarcity computing project, but it's not one I expect to hit in my lifetime.
"To summarise, again:
Code is data. The internal representation of data is Don't Know, Don't Care. The output format of data is not constrained by the input format; it should suit the use to which it is to be put, the person to whom it is to be displayed...."
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2026-02-19 22:17
@ShadSterling @agowa338 @blinry "Thus if the person to whom my Java code is reflected back is a LISP programmer, it should be reflected back in idiomatic LISP syntax; if a Python programmer, in idiomatic Python syntax. Let us not, for goodness sake, get hung up about syntax; syntax is frosting on the top. What's important is that the programmer editing the code should edit something which is clearly understandable to him or her." -- me, obviously. https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2006-02-20-postscarcity-software/