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> the code examples are given in a language everyday programmers will probably not recognize The code examples are given assuming the reader already knows the
by jrandm 7y ago
> the code examples are given in a language everyday programmers will probably not recognize
The code examples are given assuming the reader already knows the language and runtime -- not once in the article does it say what this language is or explain the syntax/grammar rules. I would take it to mean this isn't meant for a broad audience, or the author has made a common curse of knowledge[0] mistake.
[0]: "The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, communicating with other individuals, unknowingly assumes that the others have the background to understand." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
- Smaug123 7y agoYou're right, I had simply assumed that F# was readable. Interestingly, four proofreaders did not pick up on this either. Parenthetical aside: I could have been rescued from this by a sufficiently advanced Markdown renderer, and in fact the HTML source is annotated with `lang-fsharp`, but that metadata did not make its way up to the reader.