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Megranium a day ago

I guess it's exactly the opposite for me ... I always hated using "normal" language with the computer.

I often quip that I became a programmer specifically to avoid having to use spoken language. I always twitch at the thought of using any voice-based assistant.

Thinking in systems and algorithms is more enjoyable than using human language when it comes to computers IMHO ...

igravious 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I think I'm going to have to stop reading HackerNews

> I guess it's exactly the opposite for me ... I always hated using "normal" language with the computer.

it's called natural language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language

> I often quip that I became a programmer specifically to avoid having to use spoken language. I always twitch at the thought of using any voice-based assistant.

You're one of these people who think that programming languages are structured and formal whereas in contrast natural language must be unstructured and lacking form? Going by the Chomsky hierarchy of formalisms natural language sits somewhere between context-free and context-sensistive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildly_context-sensitive_gramm...

> Thinking in systems and algorithms is more enjoyable than using human language when it comes to computers IMHO ...

You don't think in "systems and algorithms" -- those are the outputs of your thinking.