so I am gonna ask a silly conceptual #programmer question
I am gonna make up a term here
is _dialectical_ computer programming a thing
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@ky0ko yeah I am being kinda vague
we tend to think of programming in this very centralized way. a string of commands, one after the other. either they're executed or they go wrong
it's very much the way logicbros regard thought itself to work, as purely deductive. a string of logical inferences, and either they're correct and "logical" or they're not
but reality is more about dialogues, about alternating between point and counterpoint
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@ky0ko kinda wondering how that would play out, as a method of computer programming
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@ky0ko I am totally blue skying here
@Alyx All programming could be considered dialectical between a human's desire to get a goal across and the computer (a very literal, very logical, perversely pedantic creature that).
Perhaps more useful to your question there is a small community of programmers that use/prefer what's called "literate" style esp. focused on persuasive essays with code embedded that feels quite dialectal when done well. But that mostly just recenters people in the above existing "debate".
@Alyx what do you mean by this