DConf 2013 keynote

[Timon Gehr]

On 05/12/2013 05:59 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2013 19:04:31 -0400
> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, May 10, 2013 14:31:00 H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> As they say in information theory: it is the stuff that stands out,
>>> that is different from the rest, that carries the most information.
>>> The stuff that's pretty much repeated every single time conveys
>>> very little information.
>>
>> This is an excellent way of looking at language design (and program
>> design for that matter).
>>
>
> Not to mention data compression ;)
>

A program is a compressed representation of its possible executions.