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I'm a fan of Guy Steele's Growing a Language, a talk about programming language design where he limited himself to using mostly only single-syllable words: http
by TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
I'm a fan of Guy Steele's Growing a Language, a talk about programming language design where he limited himself to using mostly only single-syllable words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoNot to mentioned hand crayon drawn transparencies.
- e12e 11y agoThis seems like a good companion (probably as a sequel) to: "Richard Feynman - Computer Heuristics Lecture": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA In general, Feynman might be a poster child for using simple language to explain complex things.