I just read this tweet five minutes after stumbling upon my copy of The Dragon Book while looking for something else. Parsers and compilers are very cool! I don't think I've ever needed to build one that required more than Terence Parr's book -- and, that was, like, one time.https://twitter.com/juliaferraioli/status/1075486178797850624 …
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Right. I don't mean to imply that the folks behind either aren't familiar with theory. The lens of communication-between-human-and-machine is clearly an afterthought (below concerns about performance of internals), while IMO that should be the primary concern of any language.
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Not even just computer languages. Any constructed mechanism for expressing meaning -- formal languages, cant, orthography -- should be designed to express what it is meant to express in a way that is clear to its intended audience, with a minimum of accidental noise.
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