On 14 July 2015 at 15:41, Jonathan Bond-Caron <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue Jul 14 09:27 AM, Domenic Denicola wrote: > > From: es-discuss [mailto:[email protected]] 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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