Actually recognizing source code from speech should be much easier, since running syntax checks on plain talk is not as trivial.

But this sytem should include eye-tracking, most hackers wouldn't want to place the cursor by speech only ...

Maybe he'll write a new app for Dragon Speech Recognition that will allow it to recognize Perl syntax. :)

Oh you are talking about SymbolSwearing?

Took me a while, other cultures have less problems with the Seven_Dirty_Words.

But under the assumption that they shouldn't be used as identifiers in source code, they'd form excellent free replacements for punctuation (well at least the one-syllable ones).

That would prevent name space pollution!

In other words: say

• "s#!t"¹ => $

  but

• "dollar" => dollar

  such that

• "s#!t dollar" => $dollar

and so on.

so @{ $job->( "name" ) }

would be something like

<Reveal this spoiler or all in this thread>

BUT I'm not confident about the encoding, cause I'm no native swearer! :-(

Could you please help me?

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

¹) augmented spelling for the American market

²) update: corrected syntax error s/ f*ck / c*ck /

Not a bad first-effort, but everyone knows that "tits" shouldn't be on the list because they're a snack. :)

It helps to remember that the primary goal is to drain the swamp even when you are hip-deep in alligators.