8 Dec
2024
8 Dec
'24
5:29 a.m.
On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 2:42 AM Matti Nykänen < matti.johannes.nykanen@gmail.com> wrote:
- ...but perhaps a nightmare for the newcomer? At least the book Felienne Hermans: *The Programmer's Brain*. (Manning,2021) seems to imply (but does not directly claim) so, because it says that we humans rely on "anchors" or words whose meaning stays the same while we are learning new concepts.
The good news there is that the anchors don't have to be keywords. Pick a
program in a field you know and use the stuff you know as anchors. (I learned practical Haskell from the xmonad source code, using the XLib calls as anchors.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh allbery.b@gmail.com