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Articulating the ineffable. Programming language theory 🤝 cognitive psychology. PhD @Stanford

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    1. Omar Rizwan‏ @rsnous 25 Mar 2018

      "When I was learning Smalltalk, Brian also used to complain about 'Californian' programming — no types, dynamic dispatch, a relaxed interactive programming environment — much warmer, and much less bracing, than Oregon or Glasgow that gave birth to his beloved Haskell."pic.twitter.com/8nZvzTHfRm

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    2. korede‏ @korede_ta 17 Mar 2019
      Replying to @rsnous

      korede Retweeted korede

      https://twitter.com/korede_ta/status/1092092927894085634?s=21 …

      korede added,

      korede @korede_ta
      “the national programming language”
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    3. Omar Rizwan‏ @rsnous 17 Mar 2019
      Replying to @korede_ta

      this is great thinkin about the invention of France (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_French#Modern_French …), nation-states as imagined communities, etc wondering what the programming language equivalent would be. stomping out the patchwork of regional programmings using mass media and educationpic.twitter.com/GwzzJYe9Sm

      1 reply 2 retweets 9 likes
    4. korede‏ @korede_ta 17 Mar 2019
      Replying to @rsnous

      word, i had similar thinking inspired by Abbasid caliphate-sponsored translation of scholarly texts into Arabic (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate …) wonder what it’d be like if states sponsored engineers to port code from other languages into the national programming languagepic.twitter.com/CvT9fX1Ntt

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    5. Omar Rizwan‏ @rsnous 17 Mar 2019
      Replying to @korede_ta

      Omar Rizwan Retweeted Omar Rizwan

      ohh also https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1078457221011378176 … creating a national programming language as a way to construct a national programming culture the same way you make a national literary language to construct a national literary culture

      Omar Rizwan added,

      Omar Rizwan @rsnous
      every software platform is a culture in itself; once dead, it's not so easy to bring back https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1078454695742431233 …
      2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
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    7. Omar Rizwan‏ @rsnous 17 Mar 2019
      Replying to @rogerclark @korede_ta

      a leading theory for why Smalltalk failed too, right? IBM pulling its support / Sun backing Java this is why programming languages arguments are always weird to me. first, the 'language' framing is a weird decontextualization, and second, it's very much a field of power politics

      2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
      Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton 17 Mar 2019
      Replying to @rsnous @rogerclark @korede_ta

      Also how policy influences design, e.g. Lua: "Brazil had a policy of strong trade barriers for computer hardware and software motivated by a nationalistic feeling that Brazil could and should produce its own hardware and software." https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1238846 …

      9:39 PM - 17 Mar 2019
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        2. Omar Rizwan‏ @rsnous 17 Mar 2019
          Replying to @wcrichton @rogerclark @korede_ta

          yup, that's a great example that I forgot!

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        3. Omar Rizwan‏ @rsnous 17 Mar 2019
          Replying to @rsnous @wcrichton and

          sort of a @danwwang thing there with the development of an indigenous platform & knowledge (could maybe say the same for France and OCaml pre-Jane Street)

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