Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2017-12-26 at 12:26 +0000, codephantom via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
[…]
> I genuinely believe, that it is psychological science that will 
> play the most important role in terms of what programming 
> languages of the future will look like.
> 
> psychological studies should be integrated into every CS course.

Sadly I cannot see either of these happening. There is already too much
to pack in to an undergraduate CS (*) course even if first programming
and simple algorithms moves out into pre-university education – as has
now happened in the UK. Also far too few universities have good
CS/Psych cooperation.

There also needs to be much greater education everywhere about socio-
technical systems. To be honest I'd prioritise this over programming
language design since programmers can always use crap languages, but
can they build the right system right?


(*) CS is a misnomer, computer science is not really about computers,
and there is essentially no science in it.

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Russel.
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