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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’d like to introduce you to an idea that you’ve probably heard before, namely<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>ProgramWriting “<a href="https://programwriting.org/" target="_blank">https://programwriting.org/</a>” (don’t click) originally conceived as a movement writing way of creating computer programs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The idea would be to be like a “choreographer” for computers. I originally had the idea in 1991, but it appears that people had the same idea before and after me—Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero, etc. The idea would be to make these “improvised” on a very grand scale, beyond jazz etc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Do you know anyone else pursuing this concept that I could team with? I am mildly familiar with voice recognition, but my idea was for a non-sedentary way to program a computer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’ve seen recent advances in danceLogic, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dancelogic-innovative-youth-program-combines-coding-and-dance-2019-06-20/" target="_blank">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dancelogic-innovative-youth-program-combines-coding-and-dance-2019-06-20/</a> , and that gives me hope. Another approach is DynamicLand, but DynamicLand appears somewhat sedentary.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I have a background in Programming by Demonstration. “Drag and Drop” programming, essentially, working with a running program to build the program. <a href="http://dsmforum.org/events/DSVL01/carlson.pdf" target="_blank">http://dsmforum.org/events/DSVL01/carlson.pdf</a> Bret Victor is my idol these days. I’ve done little work on this since 1993 besides adding forms and queries to my system.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Part of my goal stems from a reading disability. I’m would like to enjoy the things I enjoyed before I was disabled. The reading disability may have made writing difficult. I think sign language may serve as an alternate to reading—at least I’m hoping it will.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>If this could be tied into Blockly to do code generation in popular programming languages of today, that would be very cool.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>If creative people could find a way to express themselves with the computer without typing or voice, that would be very cool.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>If additionally, we could tie in natural semantic metalanguage, “semantic primes”, that would be even more exciting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>John Carlson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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