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Possibility of an Illiterate Programer?

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 9:10

/prog/, is it possible for a person to know how to code and program computers before knowing how to read and write in English (or any other natural language)? Is there an example of, maybe, a savant with extraordinary talents in the field, but is, otherwise, social inept?

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 9:35

>>1
Me.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 11:56

yeah, it's probably possible, programming is easy.
but that doesn't mean you should force SICP down your 4 yearold child's throat.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 12:11

>>3
I'd make a joke about the /prog/ snake and a four years' old's throat, but you'd all just tell me to get back to /b/.

But anyway, a child that can understand SICP can at least understand English, failing the requirements set up in >>1

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 13:21

>>4
back to /pedo/ please

Name: OT 2008-12-13 13:29

>>4 Yeah, GTFO of this thread. I'm seriously asking /prog/ if there is a brillant savant, out there somewhere, whose gift is programming computers or deep mathematical logic.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 13:57

>>6
Probably, but without the ability to communicate their knowledge to others, who the fuck will know?

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 16:22

>>6
I don't know about brilliant savant, but I am socially inept and pretty good at programming.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 16:43

>>7
>Illiterate
>without the ability to communicate
You know... you can still speak even if you're illiterate.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 16:47

>>9
Yeah, you certainly proved that.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 16:55

>>10
Hey >>9 would you like some ointment for that burn?
A burn is a type of injury that may be caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or friction

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 17:00

>>8
Everyone in /prog/ is autistic.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 17:12

No. Savants express natural laws and art.

There is nothing natural about programming. Just like there has never been an idiot savant who wrote a great novel.

Faggot

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-13 17:20

>>11
A burn is a type of injury that may be caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or friction
I don't see where it says words there, so I'll be fine.

Name: OP 2008-12-13 17:29

>>13 I don't mean autistism or Asperger's or even Tourette's. That is something else.

I'm more interested in the savant mind. Has there been one yet that has captured the distilled essence of process, mathematical logic and time/change? And could he/she, with assistance perhaps, sit down at a terminal and control the computer with a non-ambiguous language (a computer programming language) and generate decent output (prove theorems, bla)?
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