2017 ACM PPoPP Keynote: It's Time for a New Old Language

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an excellent talk on notation problems, useful when reading papers or designing a new metalanguage.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Guy Steele

Topic

programming language notation

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• This is great! I wish I had seen something like this years ago. Related: "It's Time for a New Old Language" by Guy Steele. [VIDEO] He gives a history of metalanguage notations (for both language semantics and syntax, including regexes and CFGs). And then he …

• (Nice to see your work shared here :) ) I went through the corresponding videos last year: [LINK] [LINK] It was a great refresher as someone who once liked math but hasn't done much of it in ~20 years :) I had seen the blog …

• Or ideas in general, should we ever gate keep the dissemination of ideas and knowledge? Innovation is more likely to occur when people cross disciplines and they can only do that if it is approachable, it is gradual and discoverable. Simple is hard, simplistic is …