Future of Coding Weekly 2022/02 Week 4

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📜 No-code History 👁️ Concrete meaning in Visual Languages ⚖️ Code vs No-code 💻 A new kind of programming environment

Our Work

📝 No-code History: Pygmalion (1975) via Mariano Guerra

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I'm starting a series of blog posts covering the "History of No-code", the idea is to bring together this new interest in "Non Fregean Programming" closer to its history and theory. (the opposite of fregean according to Pygmalion is analogical, which I find to be an overloaded term to use)

The first post is about Pygmalion (1975), the next one will be on an older but non-visual one. Trying to find where the limit of No-code lies 🙂

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Thinking Together

🐦 Tweet from @dubroy via Mariano Guerra

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Interesting thread and discussion topic:

🐦 Patrick Dubroy: Most visual programming languages make limited use of the visual channel — the program structure is represented visually, but not much else. Usually the shapes and colors they use have an abstract (symbolic) meaning, not a concrete one.

What are some different approaches?

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💬 Orion Reed

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I’d really love to know if anyone knows of literature on generating examples in mathematically robust ways. It’s hard to search for literature on this because of how Google interprets the query. I know there’s work here in formal language theory, as it’s usually straightforward to generate a sentence given a formal grammar. But I really want to know what work has been done in a more general context of mathematical structures.

Questions like ” what is the simplest example of structure X” or “smallest example that can be differentiated from the others” or “simplest counter-example”. I know there’s work on example-driven programming and the like, which I assume would have some relevance, but I’ve had no luck finding much. I just have to assume that this is a question that some mathematicians somewhere have asked before.

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📝 New Jersey, MIT Style via Mariano Guerra

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is this community New Jersey, MIT Style, both or none?

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📝 Code vs. No-Code via Jason Morris

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Blog post yesterday about coders getting frustrated with over-reliance on no code tools.

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🔗 The Yak Online Governance Primer via Kartik Agaram

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The Yak Online Governance Primer may be interesting to some people in this group. It's arguably off-topic for this group, but there is a fig leaf: Ivan Illich is one of the targets of commentary, and seeing his work embedded in a state space gave me interesting context and perspective on Tools for conviviality (akkartik.name/illich.pdf)

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Content

💻 Carbide: a new kind of programming environment via Mattia Fregola

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Mildly confusing yet strongly fascinating programming environment.

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