Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.org> wrote:
> I need a co-conspirator with better hands than mine to get through the next
> stage which is some form of an AST smart editor that operates on larger
> chunks such as idioms or snippets in a speech friendly way. Ideally I'd like
> to see a bidirectional transform between the spoken form and a code form so
> that you can edit the spoken form and regenerate the code.

Sounds to me like what you want is a variant language, a
speech-friendly programming language that compiles to Python. You
effectively store the spoken version, and translate it (one way) to
Python for execution.

ChrisA