[Tutor] What are these two string-formatting styles called?

[student Tyler Northrip]

In response to your points, voice command using visuals, this idea has been
explored before. In the book containment by Christian Cantrell they use
methods such as this. The main character places a helmet on his head, and
writes code using his mind. Voice command was also used as well.


Will these ideas work or even be necessary? Perhaps one day we will create
computers that rely solely on our minds, so we would only need to think a
command and the computer would carry it out. I remember something similar
from 3001: a space odyssey.

Other than voice command and our thoughts, there is the idea of having a
computer create the program for us. Is it even possible to create a
computer capable of this? It would have to be an AI, and would it even have
the creativity or ingenuity of a human programmer? Food for thought.


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Jim Mooney <cybervigilante at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 14 June 2013 10:56, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>> On 15/06/13 03:32, Jim Mooney wrote:
>>
>>  Now you're going to tell me there's a programmer's keyboard ;')
>>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Space-cadet_keyboard<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard>
>>
>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/**wikipedia/commons/4/47/Space-**cadet.jpg<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Space-cadet.jpg>
>>
>>
>> http://ageinghacker.net/hacks/**apl-keyboard/apl-keyboard-2.**jpg<http://ageinghacker.net/hacks/apl-keyboard/apl-keyboard-2.jpg>
>>
>> http://www.rexswain.com/**aplinfo.html<http://www.rexswain.com/aplinfo.html>
>>
>
> Alas, it looks like development stopped on programmer's keyboards quite a
> while ago. I guess I'll just wait for voice-command and I can code while I
> eat a burger.
>
> Seriously, Python would be the best adapted for voice command with its
> indenting and English-like syntax. A one-line javascript program littered
> with symbols, probably not. You couldn't even think it out to say it. At
> least I couldn't without typing it down, defeating the whole purpose of
> voice command.
>
> Although the string formatting just mentioned brings you right back to
> head-spinning one-liners of arbitrary complexity; maybe the best would be
> voice-command for basice concepts, while using the keyboard for stuff that
> would twist your tongue.
>
> Of course, by the time voice command gets really good, computers will be
> writing the programs, and programmers will be meta-programming using visual
> syntax - combining colored and adaptable object blocks in 3-D. Back to
> playing with blocks. Cool.
>
> I'm probably going to hear that's already been done, too ;')
>
> Jim
> "Knock, knock!" "Who's there?" "Me." "We got no room - go away"
>    Three years later
> "Knock, knock!" "Who's there?" "Nobody" "Plenty of room for nobody -
> please come in."
>
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