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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Such an excellent question!
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Jimmy Andrews
@aZaphos
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do programming languages people ever analyze e.g. edit distance to nearest valid program for different languages? like as a way to quantify how in perl if you typo, instead of refusing to run it happily just runs a wildly different thing than you intended
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Joshua Yanovski
@awesomeintheory
Rereading what you asked for, I guess this isn't really it, since you're interested in comparing across languages, and this is more about refining the notion of distance to care about more than just syntax (because, as you said, a close program can run very differently). Whoops!
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