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Where are the radical ideas in computer science? (Radical is not adding functional elements to Python, for instance...)
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Design Theory,
Snaking.
Here, for instance, is a radical (but not particularly new) idea in computer language design:
The computer records all interactions with the programmer and shares it's understandings of meanings and implications of any given set of events/contexts with all other computers in the system.
With every spare bit of processing and communications power, the computer ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.