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Another very nice thing about this is that it is much much easier to parse, because only one kind of thing can go in each position of the phrase. Simplicity in
by andrewla 7y ago
Another very nice thing about this is that it is much much easier to parse, because only one kind of thing can go in each position of the phrase. Simplicity in parsing is something that I think is underrated in language design; the harder it is for a computer to parse, the harder it is for a human to parse, and parsing code is 90% of the programmers work (the other parts being 9% debugging and 1% authoring new code).
- Pfhreak 7y agoI replied elsewhere that I found the opposite to be true. So I suspect that different people will find different styles to be easier/harder to parse. > the harder it is for a computer to parse, the harder it is for a human to parse, I don't think this is true -- assembly (or bytecode) is very easy for the computer to parse, but much, much harder for humans to parse. English is much easier for humans to parse, but pretty difficult for computers to parse.