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ahbwramc comments on Brainstorming new senses - Less Wrong Discussion

28 Post author: lululu 20 May 2015 07:53PM

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Comment author: ahbwramc 21 May 2015 02:43:53PM 2 points [-]

I feel like there are interesting applications here for programmers, but I'm not exactly sure what. Maybe you could link up a particular programming language's syntax to our sense of grammar, so programs that wouldn't compile would seem as wrong to you as the sentence "I seen her". Experienced programmers probably already have something like this I suppose, but it could make learning a new programming language easier.

Comment author: faul_sname 22 May 2015 02:03:46AM *  2 points [-]

Syntax highlighting, and a compiler that highlights errors as you type them (e.g. SyntasticCheck for vim). It's really useful.