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A wish list (for programming languages) – David R. MacIver

• AnimalMuppet 11y ago
  Interesting. The first item is "community". The next several are about tooling, then foreign language interface. You're nearly halfway through his post before you get to any actual language "features" (syntax and/or semantics). And I think that reflects reality. Syntax and semantics matter, but they matter less than some other things.
• dummy7953 11y ago
  Can I please request a language that's at least partially designed by UI specialists, or psychologists familiar in cognition? Because, to me, it seems the most expensive part of a computer system is the relationship between the programmers and their code. We can make programming languages that are machine-readable, how about more effort in making programming languages human-readable?
  • zzzcpan 11y ago
    Oh yeah. I would love to see something like "don't make me think" approach, but applied to programming language design.