>I'm not sure it isn't in Windows. I'm not sure GUI isn't more like
>hieroglyphics in most of its incarnations than any truly "real world"
>representation. I think we're working to a point of covergence aside from
>that, though....that putting together an interface that works as seemlessly
>as possible is of primary importance if this emergent computer technology is
>going to be fully realized. The problem, I think, is your hybrid language.
>Every computer language north of ML is a hybrid language, from Fortran to
>Cobol to Basic to Logo to Java. OS's work, more or less, in the same way,
>whether we're talking about Bash or Korn or MS-DOS or MPE/iX or OS/2 or
>CP/M. Some of them are higher-level languages, some are lower. But at
>root, they have to talk binary. And if we have to translate to binary, why
>worry about a hybrid?
Put current computer languages don't effectively deal with human concerns.
I could not hold a conversation with you about what kind of bread I would
to buy at the market if we had to speak in C++. The hybrid language that
I'm envisioning would allow you to do such operations. You could tell the
computer about your family and it would understand. Humans and computers
would be able to think in the same conceptual space.
So I guess I'm talking about AI.
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