> All in all, it's just a big change you are proposing. Us UNIX people are incredibly change-averse. We keep getting burned :)
Well that's exactly my point. I don't propose that we deploy it tomorrow but I want to see people do it and think about it and talk about it so our grand children can have better computing. Instead of sticking to the way of our fathers for all eternity.
XML as you identified has the same problem.
You need a human-dedicated interface that captures the intent of the human and you then convert that to something that the computer likes and tell them here ... this is what the human has ordered.
When we share the same raw input file with the computers that's when we set ourselves up for trouble.
Do I have the ultimate solution? No. Can I still complain about it being a problem? Yes.
One "solution" is a graphical rich interface with things like auto completion and validation and all that so it's much more capable of capturing the true intent of the humans. Basically the same way we interact with other web sites.
Imagine your bank told you to append a new text line to the end of "transactions.txt" file if you wanted to transfer money.
Now I put solutions in quotation marks because I know a GUI has other practical limitations and problems but you get the idea.
My point is as humans eventually we have to learn to graduate from sharing a rudimentary text language with the computer for the sake of short-term convenience.
Well that's exactly my point. I don't propose that we deploy it tomorrow but I want to see people do it and think about it and talk about it so our grand children can have better computing. Instead of sticking to the way of our fathers for all eternity.
XML as you identified has the same problem.
You need a human-dedicated interface that captures the intent of the human and you then convert that to something that the computer likes and tell them here ... this is what the human has ordered.
When we share the same raw input file with the computers that's when we set ourselves up for trouble.
Do I have the ultimate solution? No. Can I still complain about it being a problem? Yes.
One "solution" is a graphical rich interface with things like auto completion and validation and all that so it's much more capable of capturing the true intent of the humans. Basically the same way we interact with other web sites.
Imagine your bank told you to append a new text line to the end of "transactions.txt" file if you wanted to transfer money.
Now I put solutions in quotation marks because I know a GUI has other practical limitations and problems but you get the idea.
My point is as humans eventually we have to learn to graduate from sharing a rudimentary text language with the computer for the sake of short-term convenience.