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Starting with Semantics [video]
- oddity 7y agoI highly recommend this talk to anyone who wants to have a productive discussion about language design. Too many languages and features are proposed and discussed with excessive emphasis on the syntax. The semantics are then derived from the syntax rather than the other way around, leaving corner cases to be discovered late in the design that could have been easily avoided had the discussion started with the semantics first. I worry, however, that the lack of comments suggests a lack of interest.
- markus_zhang 7y agoAs a non CS hobbyist who tries to learn compiler theory but feels swarmed, this looks Interesting.
- compressedgas 7y agoSlides: https://pliss2019.github.io/sylvan_clebsch_slides.pdf https://pliss2019.github.io/sylvan_clebsch_slides.pdf