Sabbatical allows me to spend time writing code. Best part? How little thing have changed since I was last coding daily. Worst part? How little thing have changed since I was last coding daily To my programming language colleagues, has your field been asleep for a decade?
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Replying to @aquigley
Some of your PL colleagues might start to wonder if you've seen what they've been up to lately. State of the art is years beyond mainstream tools. I'm writing this via tweetdeck's clunky interface. Has CHI been asleep?
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Replying to @edwinbrady
Programming languages have evolved have a glacial pace. I don’t mean research I mean what’s actually happening in practice. Some point examples of innovation is not the same as fundamental change. It’s not your problem to fix this.
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Replying to @aquigley @edwinbrady
Anyone's choice to use a language that hasn't changed in 10+ years is no reflection on what's happening at the cutting edge of wider (industrial) PL research.
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Replying to @lenary @edwinbrady
“Cutting edge”. Pardon me but that’s a bit of a joke. The stats on % of lines of code written and in what and what that language looked like or was based on 10 years ago doesn’t fill me with confidence things are improving on a large scale. Happy to be proved wrong.
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It might be the case that everyone here is not well-informed about the wider aspects pf each others areas of research. This is a shame, and something that should be rectified. How we can improve PL design and experience with lessons learned from HCI would be interesting to see.
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I should dig out my job talk slides to prove this point
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That is a right shame, and those who mocked should be ashamed of themselves. Not everyone in the PL world is like that, and there is plenty of open minded people who would welcome input from more experienced researchers.
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We should do more of this, especially if we're taking this idea of programming being a conversation with the machine seriously. Right now I'm still focussed on the semantics of the primitives but we don't want to be tied to text editors in the long run.
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That’s an interesting way of thinking about it. I’d love to have a real session in the summer not just a few tweets. Maybe a debate? “This house believes CYZ”
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Replying to @aquigley @edwinbrady and
I’m just going off line now. Flying to Malaysia. Let hope I don’t have a flood of pisses off tweets when I land
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