{"id":1627,"date":"2022-07-23T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2022-07-23T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T19:05:11","slug":"research-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=1627","title":{"rendered":"Research goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was recently asked to state my research goal, and this is what I came up with. Suggestions for clarification welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make simple things easy for amateur programmers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where simple things = small scale ad hoc internet applications:
< 100 users
< 100Mb data
< 1000 LOC (or equivalent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where easy = total documentation of the entire stack < 1000 pages, written to the comprehension level of a non-STEM undergraduate. But while still providing general purpose programming within some domain, like spreadsheets but unlike many no-code systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where amateur = someone who wants to invest the minimum effort in learning technical details to make something work. It is not a goal to appeal to professional programmers nor train them. But perhaps the extreme simplification required for amateur programming will suggest ways to simplify industrial-scale programming too. For example SQL started as an end user tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe these goals can not be acheived by remixing our standard bag of tricks. If that were possible it would already have been done. We need fundamentally new ideas, or perhaps discarded old ones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was recently asked to state my research goal, and this is what I came up with. Suggestions for clarification welcome. Make simple things easy for amateur programmers. Where simple things = small scale ad hoc internet applications:< 100 users< 100Mb data< 1000 LOC (or equivalent) Where easy = total documentation of the entire stack … <\/p>\n

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