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How Search Will Affect Programming Language Design
- catechu 16y agoBiggest impact I've found which is not directly discussed in the OP: A great package repository (e.g. CPAN) can outweigh quirks in language design (e.g. Perl spaghetti code). It seems to me that TeX did the best job of winning at both -- over three decades, at that!
- bdon 16y agoGreat post! Check out this video of a research project at Stanford that integrates web search into an IDE: http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/paper.php?id=138 http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/paper.php?id=138
- DanI-S 16y agoThat's awesome, although it'd be cooler if the information appeared on a separate screen rather than obscuring the text editor.
- protomyth 16y agoBefore I clicked I took the article literally and though "someone wrote and article on how to name your programming language so it turns up in google first. SEO for Languages or Go is a bad name"
- tluyben2 16y agoI find this rather scary; most 'programmers' under 20 I know 'learned' programming like this. I mean; most PHP programmers you'll encounter on the web only know how to combine snippets; they don't think for 1 minute, they just search everything they need, copy/paste, change a bit. And what is frightening that actually quite large sites are made like that. And this practice gaining popularity too.