"Reducing typing" seems to be an important value for some software developers.
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"Reducing typing" seems to be an important value for some software developers. Is there some material origin to this? I.e. was too much typing ever a problem itself?
(Triggered by an add for an LLM that announced that programmers need to type less code, but the idea is not new) -
"Reducing typing" seems to be an important value for some software developers. Is there some material origin to this? I.e. was too much typing ever a problem itself?
(Triggered by an add for an LLM that announced that programmers need to type less code, but the idea is not new)@simulo Looking at how many letters there are in the standard Unix command line tools, this seems a pretty old idea …
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@simulo Looking at how many letters there are in the standard Unix command line tools, this seems a pretty old idea …
@xeophin Indeed! But why?
People who like to think about Unix command names might enjoy: https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~jmarty/courses/LinuxStuff/NormanTheTroublewithUnix.ScanofDatamation1981.pdf
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"Reducing typing" seems to be an important value for some software developers. Is there some material origin to this? I.e. was too much typing ever a problem itself?
(Triggered by an add for an LLM that announced that programmers need to type less code, but the idea is not new)@simulo In general, my typing speed is rarely the bottleneck of my dev. Perhaps that's because I type at a pretty reasonable pace, and I use languages with very low amounts of boilerplate (and where nearly any boilerpoint can be abstracted away) and in the rare places where there are boilerplate (srfi-9 records come to mind) I have editor support to make typing them in fast through yasnippet.
In general, typing speed tends to correspond to the rate at which I can think, and a lot of the pauses come from needing to get up, pace around, think about the problem, get some tea, sit down again after a revelation. Or playing around with the idea iteratively and discovering the solution.
Lots of people are talking about LLMs as typing assistants and I just generally don't feel like that's a thing I need (excepting the RSI aspects; I do think more voice-driven editor piloting would be a good option to use sometimes)
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I asked claude.ai to write a spreadsheet. exactly like that. this is what it came back with.
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@oblomov @GustavinoBevilacqua @ALFA Avrei detto meno! Ho trovato anche delle indicazioni di spessori più bassi, può darsi che il numero si possa dimezzare
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@oblomov Having foo be a class and not a struct would make some things a lot more complicated. If there's no other way, I'd probably prefer to generate automatically the procedures that take struct bar *, invoke the converter explicitly, and then call the hand-written procedures, over doing multiple inheritance.
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@ananas You're thinking about something weird.
I want to do something like this, which, as you can see, is so perfectly cromulent than it compiles and runs:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
struct bar {
int paydirt;
};
struct foo {
int some_field_here;
struct bar cheap_dirt;
operator bar &() {
return cheap_dirt;
}
};
void work_on_paydirt (struct bar &object) {
printf("Teh paydirt is %i\n", object.paydirt);
}
struct foo the_foo;
struct bar the_bar;
int main () {
work_on_paydirt(the_foo);
work_on_paydirt(the_bar);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}I just want work_on_paydirt, for historic compatibility reasons, to take struct bar * rather than struct bar & as its argument. Logic-wise, maintenance-wise, there's no difference. Even the generated code is exactly the same (modulo the mangled names). But C++ syntax is only happy to let me define an explicit conversion operator for a struct-to-struct-reference, and not for the same struct's pointer to a struct pointer. I'm not trying to do anything exotic here, or type punning or obfuscatory stuff; I just want the translator to implicitly invoke my type converter for a pointer-to-struct type, just like it can for a referenced-struct type.
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