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Strongly stated but I think there's some truth here. Most serious programming languages have a bias towards concepts explored in the academic study of programming languages. Of course academic theories sometimes provide a great foundation with some pretty solid ideas but they needn't be the only source of good ideas.

Programming is a design exercise and figuring out how to help humans think and explore design is something I think practitioners have more to say on than theorists. Or at least if not more to say, they certainly have more of a contribution to make in this space than we've seen so far. (disclaimer: I'm a practitioner without a CS degree working on a programming language)




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