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[Andreas Rossberg]

On 14 July 2015 at 15:41, Jonathan Bond-Caron <jbondc at gdesolutions.com>
wrote:

> On Tue Jul 14 09:27 AM, Domenic Denicola wrote:
> > From: es-discuss [mailto:es-discuss-bounces at mozilla.org] On Behalf Of
> > Matthew
> > Robb
> >
> > > Why not use the new meta syntax?
> >
> > If I thought this was a real problem that
> > needed solving,
>
> Disagree
>
> "As early as the mid-1980’s, it was observed that programming
> language research and funding emphasized technical aspects of the
> domain and neglected psychological aspects:"
>
> " The human and computer parts of programming languages have developed in
> radical asymmetry"
>
> http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1805&context=isr
>
> Bias of Engineering problems > Psychology
>

You might want to catch up on the recent discussion we just had here:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2015-June/043307.html

Complexity is very much a "psychological" aspect. And random special cases,
syntactic additions, and irregularities eat into the complexity budget
quickly.

/Andreas
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