Programming Languages

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This is the current Lemmy equivalent of https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/.

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This community is dedicated to the theory, design and implementation of programming languages.

Be nice to each other. Flame wars and rants are not welcomed. Please also put some effort into your post.

This isn't the right place to ask questions such as "What language should I use for X", "what language should I learn", and "what's your favorite language". Such questions should be posted in /c/learn_programming or /c/programming.

This is the right place for posts like the following:

"Check out this new language I've been working on!"
"Here's a blog post on how I implemented static type checking into this compiler"
"I want to write a compiler, where do I start?"
"How does the Java compiler work? How does it handle forward declarations/imports/targeting multiple platforms/?"
"How should I test my compiler? How are other compilers and interpreters like gcc, Java, and python tested?"
"What are the pros/cons of ?"
"Compare and contrast vs. "
"Confused about the semantics of this language"
"Proceedings from PLDI / OOPSLA / ICFP / "

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Paper: Feminism in Programming Language Design (www.felienne.com)

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[–] akkajdh999 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What

[–] BB_C 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Maybe the irony style that hovers between post-irony and meta-irony went over your head.

I did very cool things like build refactoring tools for spreadsheets—but the only thing people generally cared about was telling me over and over that spreadsheets are not programming languages. And it never became clear why that is. Argumentation that could easily be refuted (yes, spreadsheets are Turing complete, thank you very much) did not help in any case: Saying that spreadsheets are code is outside of the Overton window of acceptable PL opinions, I learned over and over again.

So the way we construct what is a programming language is social, groups decide what is in and out, and if you are out, like spreadsheets, and thus like in early in your career, you cannot participate in the world of PL. If we want to study this phenomenon, we cannot do that in the realm of PL itself, you will need theories about how social constructs work, and that is where feminism can help!

This is excellent, at least for beginners (a bit too obvious and derivative for me).

[–] akkajdh999 1 points 5 days ago

Sorry for my useless comment, I have only read the title :D I like this!