Hi all, I am not quite sure I belong to this list with the thing I am intersted in, but maybe I can at least get a hint about the place that's more appropriate. The theme I would like to discuss is linguistic approach to computer languages. I.e. not a computer-science-like approach to natural languages, their analysis, automatised translation etc. (quite a common field of research), but a linguistic approach to programming languages like C++ or Lisp, analysing the languages from the point of view of innate ability of human being to understand languages (chomskian "language faculty"), investigating what aspects of programming language are easy to learn & use (having these traits wired in our brain) and which of them are difficult because there's no adeqate (or maybe efficient enough) mental mechanism to deal with them. If anyone knows about any research going on in this fields (people, papers or whatever), I would appreciate if you let me know. I already tried to get info at university computer science department, but I am afraid I wasn't able even to explain what I am talking about. Hope I will have more luck in psychologically skilled community.
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