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Syntax Matters

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Talkat Code Mesh 2013 · 2013-12-03..12-05· [javascript]

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name:Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya
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video:https://youtu.be/88tJNKg6gJo
slides:none on file

summary

Code Mesh London frames syntax as a practical, not ideological, issue: the claim is that syntax both reflects culture and steers behavior, supported by an unscientific 60% correlation between multilingual people and polyglot programmers and an 80% correlation tying monolinguals to English+Java habits. Examples range from compact APL expressions and Perl’s pragmatic feature creep to spreadsheet disasters — JP Morgan lost 6 billion from a sheet error — showing when syntax materially changes reliability, tooling and evolution.

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chapters (5)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 10:47It's the Language stupid
  3. 19:48Unscientific Studies Rock
  4. 22:16Language Differences
  5. 30:37Errors lead to Evolution

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