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The Rational Programmer: Investigating Programming Language Pragmatics – Communications of the ACM

https://cacm.acm.org/research/the-rational-programmer-investigating-programming-language-pragmatics

“Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to check certain conditions at compile time or at run-time, they may choose between a simple error system or a provenance-tracking...” (from the page’s text)

In short: Uncover the design choices behind programming languages like TypeScript and how they impact developers. Learn about the debate between compile-time vs run-ti... (AI summary)

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