Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

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Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

edu> on behalf of PINION, RICHARD W. <rpin...@firsttennessee.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 2:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science What about SNOBOL or ALGOL? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussi

Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

I don't give this article and the MRI study on which it is based much credence. Dijkstra was a great computer scientist, but I doubt that his iconic quotes here are based on real data. His comments on COBOL and Basic might have been influenced by his work on Algol, which he of course (as do I)

Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 12:40:09PM -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > On 5/1/2018 11:55 AM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: > >Funny, didn't mention effects on brain of learning APL or assembler. > > > Or FORTH or m4 I am yet to see the article, but have they mentioned LISP in any of its incarnations? --

Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

Steve Smith wrote: >> This one's almost certain to cause brain damage: Malbolge >> Malbolge was specifically designed to be almost impossible to use, via a counter-intuitive 'crazy operation', base-three arithmetic, and self-altering code. I don't

Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

On May 1, 2018, at 5:50 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > > This one's almost certain to cause brain damage: Malbolge > > I'd advise against clicking that link until Friday afternoon or maybe never. Don’t forget INTERCAL:

Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

Perl - all things to all people (well, sort of). This one's almost certain to cause brain damage: Malbolge I'd advise against clicking that link until Friday afternoon or maybe never. On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Wayne Bickerdike

Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

ARD W. < > rpin...@firsttennessee.com> wrote: > >> What about SNOBOL or ALGOL? >> >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf >> Of Jack J. Woehr >> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2018 2:40 PM >> To: IBM-MAI

Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

gt; Of Jack J. Woehr > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2018 2:40 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to > Science > > [External Email] > > On 5/1/2018 11:55 AM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: > > Funny, did

Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

What about SNOBOL or ALGOL? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Jack J. Woehr Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2018 2:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to S

Re: How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

On 5/1/2018 11:55 AM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: Funny, didn't mention effects on brain of learning APL or assembler. Or FORTH or m4 -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe

How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-programming-affects-brain/ Funny, didn't mention effects on brain of learning APL or assembler. -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn: