it's not the courage bit that I'm skeptical about. Its the scope. It's fine to have a BHAG but try a smaller problem and solve it. This particular problem is someones academic career. Is it a a product someone would buy?
Unless I figured out how it would work. I realize that I need to work on it in stages and get each puzzle piece working. At the same time with funding what would take me 20 years working alone could be accomplished in 2 years with say at least 20 programmers and some office space.
In regards to whether it would be a product someone would buy it would be for companies that have programmers. The whole point is speeding up software development. It would make it possible to develop software in months rather than in years.
I think that the empitus for the idea first occurred to me when I had to make a symbolic link at Schwab and no one at Schwab knew how Schwab wrote symoblic links except for one guy and he was in vacation in Lousiana. I decided that there needed to be a better way of 'talking to the machine" with a smarter programming language. It would definitely make money. You could do a month's worth or programming in a day. What's not to like?
it's not the courage bit that I'm skeptical about. Its the scope. It's fine to have a BHAG but try a smaller problem and solve it. This particular problem is someones academic career. Is it a a product someone would buy?