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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

1401 points alankay | 2 comments | 20 Jun 16 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.935s | source

This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
1. jfaucett ◴[20 Jun 16 18:27 UTC] No.11940066[source]▶
Hi Alan,

Do you think we'll ever have a programming language that isn't fully text based and gets closer to a direct mapping of our own thoughts than current systems? If so any ideas what properties this language would have?

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2. hemisphere ◴[21 Jun 16 02:04 UTC] No.11943022[source]▶
A few years ago I asked another visionary, Marvin Minsky, if he thought that, in the future, we'd do our programming in something other than plain text. He said, "If it's good enough for Aristotle and Plato, it's good enough for me."

RIP, Professor.