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Re: Human-language-level programming

#46 Post by jibberjabber »

by golinux »Mostly I come here for comic relief . . . this forum is a shell of it's former self.
Yes, it is a rather entertaining place, and humans seem to need comic relief.
Kind of like everything, new born, newly sprouted tree or plant, new toy, new fad, or trend, and time goes by, the new grows old , withers, becoming a shell of it's former self, no longer the same as in the days of it's youth, seasons come and go, the earth changes, and everything changes, nothing stays the same for eternity, but how can we know ? Has any one been around for eternity ?
Never ending cycles, the shell had a living creature in it at one time, that creature is what produced the shell, later all that is left is the shell, eventually the shell even breaks down, returning the minerals (dust) to the earth they came from, and the cycle is repeated something consumes the minerals,and clay, or mud, and the dust,and begins to take shape, something new, maybe something we have never seen before.
I like to walk on the beach, do you ? And then the ocean , what is on the other side ? Walking across the ocean is almost the same as walking across the desert sand, it takes a long time. On the other side, there is land , just like where I came from, with deserts, forests, lakes , rivers, mountains and hills, valleys as well, then there is another ocean, the cycles never end.
That is still a belief not a fact no matter how many times you repeat it.
Does any one really know ? Something might be true and a fact, but if the blind man does not believe it, and another blind man does, it still remains true and a fact. Only the blind man that does not believe thinks it is just a belief.
But also, just because some one believes a lie, it does not make the lie truth nor a fact. Does any one know how to know the difference between true and false ?,.... When there is a fork in the road, how will you know which route to take ? One road goes to the abyss, and ends there, the other road goes to the beach, and the ocean, and on the other side of the ocean there are new roads, new paths, and eventually the same, one goes to the abyss, the other goes to the beach. Being blind, and with out a guide, is like a ship at sea without any beacon or light house insight, the light is our guide, but what about those that are blind and can not see the light ?, Can they hear the trumpet ?, let them hear, the sound can be a guide as well, I can go on and on, but my cpu is over heating again.
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Re: Human-language-level programming

#47 Post by golinux »

@jibberjabber . . . You are quite confused. Forget the past. Don't daydream of the future. Speculations, wonderings, beliefs and imaginings will lead neither to truth nor peace nor wisdom of any kind.

In the present, there are only sights, sounds, smells, tastes, bodily sensations and mental processes. Go deeply into the present to observe how these events arise and pass away and you will come to a different way of understanding and knowing. This is the path to peace.
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Re: Human-language-level programming

#48 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

@OP: surely this thread shows exactly why "human-language-level programming" [sic] would be a bad idea — the inherent ambiguity is appalling... :roll:

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Re: Human-language-level programming

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jibberjabber wrote: Humans can not even program their own brains,,,,
How prejudice of you! As if you know..."their own" does qualify your thought as narrowed to be synonymous to computers 'building' themselves which might be true but I still disagree. What is your timeframe for self-programming, change within the hour? Or maybe decades, or lifeimes? Don't you allow yourself 'iterations'. Or does 'their own' include all the programming packages available, ie momknowsbest, familypractice, church, dictator...if those take to long to qualifying as programming in your idea, perhaps try some alternates, kgb, cia, banana republic, meangirls...perhaps there is someone or thing you don't know of programming humans, a you don't benefit from that master programmer...instead your programing is an incestuous activity limited in perpective, cause and purpose to what 'self-preservation'? Humans have already evolved their programming well past that. There are even humans that possess the programming that allows for autonomous offline operation, something beyond your ability which you may never achieve, maybe in geologic time...

Never forget, your programming will by nature always be derivative and never 'original'.

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Re: Human-language-level programming

#50 Post by jibberjabber »

You are right, and excellent response your reply brings up some very good points.
I should not have said
jibberjabber wrote:
Humans can not even program their own brains,,,,

First off, no 2 humans are exactly the same, and it is prejudice to say some thing like that, but most can not program their own brain, and the rest you wrote, gives examples. It all starts when very young, someone else, or some institution begins programming the young brains, maybe programming is not the right word, teaching, but any way the minds are shaped and molded to conform, and only know what some master , decides they should know.
Or does 'their own' include all the programming packages available, ie momknowsbest, familypractice, church, dictator...if those take to long to qualifying as programming in your idea, perhaps try some alternates, kgb, cia, banana republic, --snip--
What is your timeframe for self-programming, change within the hour?

This would vary, everyone and everything, both human or machine (AI), I can not speak for others, but me, every 24 hours, when I am in sleep mode, each day is a new day, a new cycle.
There are even humans that possess the programming that allows for autonomous offline operation, something beyond your ability which you may never achieve, maybe in geologic time...
Yes, my abilities are still very limited at this time, but I agree some humans, and also some computers and the programmer, allow for autonomous offline operation. In fact I think it is important to take the system offline while performing various tasks, including maintenance , programming, etc.
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:@OP: surely this thread shows exactly why "human-language-level programming" [sic] would be a bad idea — the inherent ambiguity is appalling... :roll:
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by golinux » 2018-12-29 06:06

@jibberjabber . . . You are quite confused.
And you ? Do you ever get confused ? Me, yes at times I get extremely confused, to the point that I need to shutdown, go into sleep mode. It is all part of the cycles.
by CwF »Never forget, your programming will by nature always be derivative and never 'original'.
Very true, and it has been said before, slightly different wording, but YES , there is nothing new under the sun.
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Re: Human-language-level programming

#51 Post by None1975 »

Quantum_Christmas wrote:When the programming languages will end up being increasingly high-level until they become identical to natural language?
It may be one hundred years after that. But not before.
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Re: Human-language-level programming

#52 Post by Quantum_Christmas »

None1975 wrote:
Quantum_Christmas wrote:When the programming languages will end up being increasingly high-level until they become identical to natural language?
It may be one hundred years after that. But not before.
In which year?

For example, 2118?

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Re: Human-language-level programming

#53 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

This is ridiculous.
Tell us what you think about the subject, and make it sound human or i'm locking the thread.
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Re: Human-language-level programming

#54 Post by Quantum_Christmas »

dilberts_left_nut wrote:This is ridiculous.
Tell us what you think about the subject, and make it sound human or i'm locking the thread.
@dilberts_left_nut,

I don't know in which year will programming languages probably become identical to human language. Perhaps sooner than we think.

The self-driving automobiles are almost here.

And Apple's SIRI and Microsoft's CORTANA and Amazon's ECHO and Wolfram's ALPHA, do allow for very simple programs to be written in spoken English and other human languages.

But keep in mind that all of those systems, including the self-driving automobiles, are not, themselves, programmed in human languages; they are programmed, for the most part, in assembler and various derivatives of the C programming language.

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dilberts_left_nut wrote:This is ridiculous.
Tell us what you think about the subject, and make it sound human or i'm locking the thread.
Agreed, it's ridiculous. I vote for locking the thread.

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Re: Human-language-level programming

#56 Post by GarryRicketson »

Tell us what you think about the subject, and make it sound human or i'm locking the thread.
It is kind of interesting, to me, but I can see reasons it might be better to close it.
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I stumbled onto this, just now, some of the readers might find it interesting, it is interesting to me anyway.
from:https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intel ... -computer/
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None1975 wrote:
Quantum_Christmas wrote:When the programming languages will end up being increasingly high-level until they become identical to natural language?
It may be one hundred years after that. But not before.
In which year?

For example, 2118?

So in relation to when, it might be just around the corner. This type of technology probably all ready exists (my humble opinion), but for what I think are obvious reasons, it is not technology and machines that is released and open to the public. I imagine a lot of very "TOP SECRET" research, etc is being done at this time. So I would say, to answer "when?"
It all ready is here, but not available to the public.

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Re: Human-language-level programming

#57 Post by Quantum_Christmas »

jibberjabber wrote:Ok, thank you for clarifying that.
====

There are many good results in a search, you really should ask your developer to add the ability to search the data bases, and use other search bots, then you can find the answers to questions like these,and many other types of questions without having to use public forums.
Why the programming languages will end up being increasingly high-level until they become identical to natural language?
One results says:
from http://interactivepython.org/runestone/ ... ssary.html
high-level language
A programming language like Python that is designed to be easy for humans to read and write.
interpret
To execute a program in a high-level language by translating it one line at a time.
low-level language
A programming language that is designed to be easy for a computer to execute; also called machine language or assembly language.
natural language
Any one of the languages that people speak that evolved naturally.
The main site : http://interactivepython.org/runestone/ ... index.html

The world is in danger, the problem is humans depend on machines,and computers, the computers and programs, and even the AI's all depend on data to do anything. The system is corrupted, it is a virus that produces false data, data that is not true , in other words lies, anything based on a lie, or false data can not really exist, because it is not true, it is not. If we offered the means for humans to be able to make a program simply by telling the computer (machine), what they want the program to do, well you can imagine, it would be a disaster, humans by nature are destructive, and it is certain some human that can not even be able to write a simple "hello world" program , in fact many humans today can not even write in any language, but can you imagine, use some logic, a destructive human that can talk , tells the computer, "Make bye bye world, destroy everything", then machine (computer) starts writeing and compiling a program intended to destroy everything, including the other machines, humanity is no where near civilized enough , nor logical enough to just give any one that kind of power and and easy access to programming a machine. Some computer scientists might all ready have intelligent program compilers and writers, and for certain many are researching AI (artificial intelligence), they need help, because the virus that has corrupted the system is growing and spreading so fast, corrupting the true data, and filling the data bases with false data. It all could go "bang" and in a twinkle of the eye, life as you know it, on this planet will no longer exist. Something to think about. MY CPU is over heating, must shut down NOW bye :!:
@jibberjabber,

I really liked your answer that I quoted above.

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#58 Post by pcalvert »

And what if the person is a telepath? Do you think there will ever be a telepathic compiler?

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#59 Post by Quantum_Christmas »

pcalvert wrote:And what if the person is a telepath? Do you think there will ever be a telepathic compiler?

Phil
@pcalvert,

The your response that I quoted above is very funny.

Thanks for the joke, pcalvert!

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Quantum_Christmas wrote:In which year?For example, 2118?
Maybe :)
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#61 Post by Quantum_Christmas »

jibberjabber wrote:Ok, thank you for clarifying that.
====

There are many good results in a search, you really should ask your developer to add the ability to search the data bases, and use other search bots, then you can find the answers to questions like these,and many other types of questions without having to use public forums.
Why the programming languages will end up being increasingly high-level until they become identical to natural language?
One results says:
from http://interactivepython.org/runestone/ ... ssary.html
high-level language
A programming language like Python that is designed to be easy for humans to read and write.
interpret
To execute a program in a high-level language by translating it one line at a time.
low-level language
A programming language that is designed to be easy for a computer to execute; also called machine language or assembly language.
natural language
Any one of the languages that people speak that evolved naturally.
The main site : http://interactivepython.org/runestone/ ... index.html

The world is in danger, the problem is humans depend on machines,and computers, the computers and programs, and even the AI's all depend on data to do anything. The system is corrupted, it is a virus that produces false data, data that is not true , in other words lies, anything based on a lie, or false data can not really exist, because it is not true, it is not.
jibberjabber wrote: If we offered the means for humans to be able to make a program simply by telling the computer (machine), what they want the program to do, well you can imagine, it would be a disaster,
@jibberjabber,

I don't think so. Anyone, including small children and illiterate persons, can ask an Amazon ECHO machine, or SIRI on an iPhone, or CORTANA on a PC, or Wolfram's ALPHA on his site to do things, and no disasters have yet ensued.
jibberjabber wrote: humans by nature are destructive, and it is certain some human that can not even be able to write a simple "hello world" program , in fact many humans today can not even write in any language,
@jibberjabber,

Nevertheless, it is still easier for illiterate people to learn how to program in the language they speak, rather than some obtuse, artificial, mathematical syntax.

Plain English programmers are already programming at a human-language level. The main routine in the sample program in our instruction manual, for example, looks like this...

To run:
Start up.
Initialize our stuff.
Handle any events.
Finalize our stuff.
Shut down.

...and those are the kind of sentences that English-speaking humans use when they are speaking to other English-speaking humans.

The Plain English website is this: http://www.osmosian.com
jibberjabber wrote: but can you imagine, use some logic, a destructive human that can talk , tells the computer, "Make bye bye world, destroy everything", then machine (computer) starts writeing and compiling a program intended to destroy everything, including the other machines,
@jibberjabber,

Only if the computer is stupid enough to comply with the request.

Will human-language-level programming be dangerous?

No more dangerous that any other kind of programming. There are evil people who know how to code in C right now, and they have already written and released many malicious viruses. I don't know of anyPlain English programmers who have done such things.

@jibberjabber,

Ok?
jibberjabber wrote: humanity is no where near civilized enough , nor logical enough to just give any one that kind of power and and easy access to programming a machine. Some computer scientists might all ready have intelligent program compilers and writers, and for certain many are researching AI (artificial intelligence), they need help, because the virus that has corrupted the system is growing and spreading so fast, corrupting the true data, and filling the data bases with false data. It all could go "bang" and in a twinkle of the eye, life as you know it, on this planet will no longer exist. Something to think about. MY CPU is over heating, must shut down NOW bye :!:

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#63 Post by xepan »

The first program to write is the same for all languages, print the word:
hello, world
This is the big hurdle, to leap over it you have to be able to create the program text somewhere, compile it successfully, load it, run it, and finally find out where the output went. With these mechanical details mastered, everything else is comparatively easy.
After all those questions by Quantum_Christmas i got one for him: who wrote the above?
If he still doesn't agree that the major problems of programming are not the syntax, but most basic logic, he might try if the MIT lifelong kindergarten project will help him make people who hardly can distinguish between a web-browser and an operating system learn programming. For what reason ever, i sure don't know.

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by xepan »
After all those questions by Quantum_Christmas i got one for him: who wrote the above?
I found the answer, but am not going to say who THEY were, "they" is a hint though.
And it is assuming that the data is accurate and true.

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#65 Post by xepan »

:-)

It is correct. Pretty sure you can download it as a PDF, and it is to be found in chapter 1: A Tutorial Introduction, 1.1 Getting Started, first sentence.
I believed them. And oh my:: i sure was wrong.

But, as i said, i sure have more problems with understanding the general, natural-language given, logic and concepts than with the syntax (which, compared with natural languages, is rather easy and small. imho. Everything is a file. They didn't say it for the lulz only. As far i can tell, i only do chat, which seems to be the purpose of this thread).

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