As great as it is for him to be able to touch-type or even transcribe by voice, and rely on text readers, I imagine the debugging process must be ridiculously tedious for him, experiencing the typical agony felt by coders but multiplied ten-fold.
It also kinda reflects a greater need for a programming environment that has extremely natural language syntax. Not only would it help speed up coding for vocal transcribers - and make it sound less awkward out loud - it'll also be super friendly to approach and muddle around for newbies.
But you don't really need to have natural language syntax, just vocal commands macros that are fast and easy to use while also being memorizable. This dude has an interesting way of writing lisp using short, strange, vocal commands. Probably easier than having to vocalize every keyword.
I can see how it would be useful for a blind person.
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2 u/btcprox 30 Jan 2015 07:31
As great as it is for him to be able to touch-type or even transcribe by voice, and rely on text readers, I imagine the debugging process must be ridiculously tedious for him, experiencing the typical agony felt by coders but multiplied ten-fold.
It also kinda reflects a greater need for a programming environment that has extremely natural language syntax. Not only would it help speed up coding for vocal transcribers - and make it sound less awkward out loud - it'll also be super friendly to approach and muddle around for newbies.
0 u/ComputerScience 19 Feb 2015 12:32
But you don't really need to have natural language syntax, just vocal commands macros that are fast and easy to use while also being memorizable. This dude has an interesting way of writing lisp using short, strange, vocal commands. Probably easier than having to vocalize every keyword.
I can see how it would be useful for a blind person.