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

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    1. Joey Dodds‏ @n1nj4 Jan 20

      Joey Dodds Retweeted Will Crichton

      I'd be shocked if learnings from this research approach don't turn out to correlate with, or lead to breakthroughs in usable program logic. Example: it's often easier to apply Hoare Logics in a bottom up fashion, and according to this paper, some people think that way! 1/https://twitter.com/wcrichton/status/1351644389475553288 …

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      Will Crichton @wcrichton
      Excited to announce my debut PL/HCI paper appearing at CHI'21: "The Role of Working Memory in Program Tracing". Ever found it hard to remember stuff while you read a program? That's working memory! Check out our experiments exploring this phenomenon. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06305  pic.twitter.com/CEZ7VBrSm6
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    2. Joey Dodds‏ @n1nj4 Jan 20

      Here's the Hoare rule for assignment. It feels pretty weird at first, because the substitution happens in the precondition. In other words, you have to know the state you want to end up in, in order to figure out how you needed to start. 2/pic.twitter.com/VI8uS2SN75

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    3. Joey Dodds‏ @n1nj4 Jan 20

      Why not put the substitution in the post condition? You can, but it ends up looking like this: (nobody typesets this rule, so I had to grab these from software foundations https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/current/plf-current/Hoare.html …) 3/pic.twitter.com/e9XQ5V0gVt

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    4. Joey Dodds‏ @n1nj4 Jan 20

      You have to say that the old assertion still holds, but with the old value of X, and now the state evaluated at X gives you the evaluation of a, but in the old state where X still pointed to m whew. 4/

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    5. Joey Dodds‏ @n1nj4 Jan 20

      There's a simpler version if you know a doesn't care about X, but given the complexity of stating this logically, it's not surprising that many people find it intuitive to reason backwards. I'd never taken that step, but this paper helped, which is cool. 5/

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    6. Joey Dodds‏ @n1nj4 Jan 20

      The paper's statements about where memory starts to fall short seem to be calling proof and debugging tools to supplement people's memory where it tends to struggle. I recommend reading it and learning from it! 6/6

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      Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton Jan 20
      Replying to @n1nj4

      My next project is to look at how people mentally verify preconditions (eg checking a point is not null, a list index is in bounds). I agree that backwards reasoning is essential here -- you start at the operation (eg *x, L[i]), then abstractly interpret the corresponding slice.

      9:47 AM - 20 Jan 2021
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