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

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    1. rntz‏ @arntzenius Jun 20

      Low level <———> High level 60s: Machine code <—> Assembly, COBOL, Fortran 70s: Machine code, asm <—> C, Lisp, Prolog 90s: asm, C++, COBOL <—> Java, Lisp, Prolog, ML, Haskell, Python ??s: C, Java, Python, Haskell, Lisp <—> ???

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      Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton Jun 20
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      Excel, Webflow, Figma, Unreal, …

      1:08 PM - 20 Jun 2021
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        1. Will Crichton‏ @wcrichton Jun 20
          Replying to @wcrichton @arntzenius

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          More general perspective: low-level is above our current point in time, high-level is lower.https://twitter.com/wcrichton/status/1299134375632617472 …

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          Will Crichton @wcrichton
          In 1970s devs were measured in "instructions per man-month", but this metric failed as PLs got better. Instead, they measured: "the year in which 50% of the problems in an area can be programmed in less than an hour by a user knowledgeable in his field with one day of training" pic.twitter.com/hRBjJqA83l
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        2. rntz‏ @arntzenius Jun 20
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          Interesting, but seems intrinsically domain-specific; you need a list of tasks to judge against. I like to think in terms of what concerns a language liberates you from (or, negatively, pretends don't exist):https://twitter.com/arntzenius/status/1406713408112713728?s=20 …

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          rntz @arntzenius
          some concerns languages are "above" Assembly: how do I encode instructions? C: what's the instruction architecture? How do I manage the stack? Lisp: when to free memory? How to represent a closure? Haskell: when does this need to be computed? SQL: how should I order my loops?
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