Programming has really suffered from the advent of "programming languages" as a field.
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"Programming languages" is all about how you arrange ASCII characters, and not at all about the *overall experience* of developing programs.
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@peterseibel Fine, Fortress has Unicode. But which part do you disagree with?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@peterseibel In practice, perhaps. But in terms of *research* it's syntax, semantics, and implementation thereof.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@peterseibel Semantics is absolutely to do with text :-). But, yeah, sounds like we're largely in agreement.
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