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0 pointsshawn_w1y ago0 comments

I suspect that if you're fluent in the language, understanding an expression written in it comes just as easily and quickly as reading a sentence in a book does to me.

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campbel1y ago

Information density is studied in linguistics. It could likely apply to programming languages similarly.

andylynch1y ago

That’s exactly what they say. Though most kdb I’ve see in business looks more like Python.

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0 pointsshawn_w1y ago0 comments

I suspect that if you're fluent in the language, understanding an expression written in it comes just as easily and quickly as reading a sentence in a book does to me.

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campbel1y ago

Information density is studied in linguistics. It could likely apply to programming languages similarly.

andylynch1y ago

That’s exactly what they say. Though most kdb I’ve see in business looks more like Python.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse