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I believe it is easier to create a language when you are "younger" because it's the only time you don't know what you are up against. I remember one of my cowo
by firefoxd 2y ago
I believe it is easier to create a language when you are "younger" because it's the only time you don't know what you are up against.
I remember one of my coworkers who worked in marketing and had a side project. He asked me if I could help him build his search box. This is someone who dabbled in computer science in college but never worked in the field. His search box was a NLP where the user could write free form to query some data. The file was thousands of lines of generated code that branched into a funnel of specificity. It worked for the terms he tested with, but not with those real users actually used.
It was overkill, but it was damn impressive. If he knew better, he would just have a few fields with filters for search like I ended up suggesting. You have to be young to try the NLP approach first.
- samatman 2y agoHow do you reconcile this belief with the Fine Article's finding that the average age of a program creator is 37.5 years?
- vram22 2y ago>average Lies, damned lies, and statistics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_stati...
- williamcotton 2y agoSure, but the scatter plot and histogram in TFA suggest that there’s not a lot of languages written by young adults. The average can of course be misleading but it really isn’t in this case.
- dangcoderevue 2y ago[dead]