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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Have you seen
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://neverworkintheory.org/2014/01/29/stefik-siebert-syntax.html">http://neverworkintheory.org/2014/01/29/stefik-siebert-syntax.html</a>
?<br>
Cheers,<br>
Greg<br>
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On 2014-05-12 6:08 PM, Jim Blandy wrote:<br>
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<div>That's actually a painful question.<br>
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It's blazingly obvious that human factors have a first-order
impact on the effectiveness of a programming language, but there
isn't much hard data on what the influences are, or how they
play out. It's much more fun (and more thesis-friendly) to
produce some theoretical result than to publish some
soft-science mushy experimental result that struggles to
establish a 95% confidence interval - even if the latter is what
programmers really need.<br>
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And then there's the fact that people rarely have a choice of
programming languages, so whatever improvements you do find are
hard to deploy.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Greg
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thought was, where's the data from A/B testing? :-)
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Food for thought.<br>
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