Programming Isn’t Math, It’s Linguistics
From LaurieWired. Compilers and Humans have the same problem. We’re all terrible at understanding each other. Many programming bugs are fundamentally linguistic confusion. Syntactic irregularities affect human languages just like computer languages! Join me for some formal language theory, a lot of C++, and some "recreational" insults. — Timestamps: 00:00 Language Ambiguity 03:37 Compiler Theory…
