Category Archives: nearly linguistics

On a re-read you realise this isn’t really about Swift

Posted on 2014-06-03 by Graham

It’s a bit early to have formed an opinion on a recently-announced programming language, but as the requisite number of people have asked what mine is (i.e. at least zero) I thought I’d type and see what happens. Rules in … Continue reading →

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It’s just like English

Posted on 2014-05-06 by Graham

Fans of the RSpec tool for writing tests will be familiar with its English-like(fn1) syntax for describing tests, which looks like this. describe StrawMan do context “when interpreting a test in RSpec” do it “is written in plain English” do … Continue reading →

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How much programming language is enough?

Posted on 2014-04-07 by Graham

Many programmers have opinions on programming languages. Maybe, if I present an opinion on programming languages, I can pass off as a programmer. An old debate in psychology and anthropology is that of nature vs nurture, the discussion over which … Continue reading →

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