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The Programming Language Wars: Questions and Responsibilities for the Programming Language CommunityThe Programming Language Wars: Questions and Responsibilities for the Programming Language Community by Andreas Stefik & Stefan Hanenberg video of presentation @ CodeMesh 2014 A presentation of the results of a number of randomized controlled trial studies of the affects programming language designs on users. He spends a great deal of time on the need for the programming language creation community to do more of these kinds of trials and why he thinks they are so necessary. Among the conclusions are
He says that languages shouldn't be created or changed without this kind of research to back up the ideas. Only half the interesting detail is in the slides. questions start @ 34:00 the Perl vs java research wave previously discussed as Perl vs. Random Syntax here on LTU By Phil Miess at 2015-04-18 00:13 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 14475 reads
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