cognitive psychology. PhD 
One striking feature of programming language history is that two of the most influential languages ever created were designed by committee: Algol and Haskell, both under quite similar circumstances.pic.twitter.com/fTKFAg6Gtp
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Both languages never had a formal semantics, albeit for different reasons. Haskell: "It just never seemed to be the most urgent task." Algol: "Like the Bible, [the report] was meant, not merely to be read, but to be interpreted."pic.twitter.com/r6MBHSxmar
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Where are those snippets from? This is super interesting.
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Alan Perlis. "The American Side of the Development of Algol." HOPL I, 1978. Hudak et al. “A History of Haskell: Being Lazy with Class.” HOPL III, 2007.
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This is great.
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