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Since there are people in the know here: How would you go in the adjacent field of language design? I would be super interested in doing research on the mental
by turbinerneiter 7y ago
Since there are people in the know here:
How would you go in the adjacent field of language design? I would be super interested in doing research on the mental load of different programming languages (and different representations of information). I.e. put a hacker in a fMRI and let her solve tasks in different languages.
- exikyut 7y agoThis is an interesting idea. I wonder how many people you'd need to measure to produce a usable stereotype model. (Hmm, I wonder if studies of other types of problem-solving challenges have asked the same question and published any useful data?) I fear you'd need to parametrically plot developers, experience, and language together to get a useful result. And then there's the "I get it" threshold point at which the brain suddenly finds a particular subject much easier to reason about, ie, fundamental learning. Everyone's on a spectrum there - one that seems to be very hard to self-assess.
- azhenley 7y agoPeople in academia are doing research in this area. Let me know if you want a PhD, I am hiring :)