At my wee job — a few hours a week, just enough to deter me from a life of crime but not enough to make me rich — I was chatting with their one man CTO/IT department (a three person shop, so all of that fits on one plate) about RSI and carpal tunnel. We covered ergonomic keyboards, chording keyboard, foot pedals, Qwerty/Sholes vs Dvorak, etc. We mentioned speech recognition, and he thought it was a bad idea for programmers, but I argued, what if you could use some macros to get around the awkward bits (opening and closing parens, brackets, etc.).
You could issue instructions like
open block
if var interval is less than one set var interval equal to one
and get
{
if ($interval < 1) { $interval = 1;)
It seems dangerously close to “do what I mean, not what I say.â€?
from fortune(6):
When someone says “I want a programming language in
which I need only say what I wish done,� give him a lollipop.