...by Daniel Szego
quote
"On a long enough timeline we will all become Satoshi Nakamoto.."
Daniel Szego

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Notes on the design of programming languages


A programming language is actually an interface technology. It provides an interface, a communication channel between two fundamentally different technologies: the one which is a basically a Turing machine or some kind of a Neumann architecture, and the other one which is some kind of a hierarchical pattern recognition system with some deep level neuroscience mechanism, with other words called as the brain. A good programming language is designed for both environments, not just to the hardware environment but to the neocortex as well.