The Language of Programming - Anjana Vakil

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• Anjana Vakil: The Language of Programming
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Anjana Vakil: The Language of Programming

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• GOTO Chicago 2019

Slides

• The Language of Programming

Notes

• Lingustics
• Is communicating with machines is the primary purpose of programming languages?
• Programs must be written for humans to read and only an added bonus tha the computer can also execute them.
• Allow to collaborate with other people.
• Tower of Babel
• There are about 7,000 languages used around the world.
• The World atlas of language structures
• Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
• Noam Chomsky: Syntactic Structures
• Michael Tomasello: Language Is Not an Instinct.
• programming paradigms
• Peter Van Roy: Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
• Peter Van Roy: Programming Paradigms for Dummies
• prescriptivism vs descriptive
• Edsger W. Dijkstra
• APL
• Kenneth E. Iverson
• Conway’s Game of Life
• Matrix manipulations
• Array programming languages

• Tron

• words are actions
• Kaya Thomas

s/whitelist/safelist/
s/blacklist/blocklist/

s/master/leader/
s/slave/follower/

• Ramsey Nasser: alb

• Ahmed Abdalla: noor

• Scratch - multi-language programming environment for children.

foo = bar('baz')

result = analyze('data')

• There is no canonical form to vocalise code.

• Felienne Hermans

• we can’t learn alone
• we learn in communities
• The Recurse Center

• Outreachy

• Mapbox Careers

• code is language is collaboration is power