todo

format

• add index
• insert name of listing for each legend
• figure out how to fucking break these URLs (might just need to shorten them somehow (with the manual spaces, \href, or else….))

conclusion

• [ ] add a note concluding on code generation via LLMs

chap 4 - programming

• [ ] rewrite intro of chap once the whole thing is re-read -> semantic compression and spatial navigation, expression and execution

nick notes

• case studies
  • i should definitely have a more comparative approach: multiple code-bases, with aesthetics which are tied to LANGUAGE, COMMUNITY and PROBLEM (question of the idiomatic). this is better than having one case study after another, completely discontinued.
  • find similar problems in different programs, see how they deal with it
  • find specific cases where the cognitive load is high
  • again, DO IT IN PARALLEL as a comparative studies.

programming languages

• [ ] in the scales part, add that the structure/syntax/vocab framework is the same as dijkstra in “the humble programmer”, quoted in http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/2/000698/000698.html
• [ ] on esolangs, add http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/2/000698/000698.html

styles

• [ ] add to the idiosyncracies this index of language design http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages/
• [ ] gefen wants more on the style part, i agree

functions

• [ ] in the case of list comprehension in Python, it is both a technical and social environment
• [ ] re-quote hayles and her regime of computation (surface, depth, etc.) when i also talk about paloque berges et. al.
• [ ] at this point i need to synthesize. rather work on connections and disconnections between the social and the functional?

chap 3 - beauty

• [ ] change section titles

chap 2 - understanding

• [ ] recs from guido, neuropsychologists who might be interested: stanislas dehaene and christophe paillier

chap 1 - ideals

• [ ] add a subsubsec on verbosity?

introduction