wow. thought this looked interesting but didn’t expect it to be as great as it was! should be required watching for language designers imo

The philosophy here is considerably deeper than the example, which I think can be summed up with people expect something like breadth-first search in Prolog-like languages. (I've seen it time and again.) But adapting to how people expect a language to work? That's the ticket!

A very good talk indeed. Makes me wonder to what degree language user expectations depend on their prior experience, not just in computing. Also how the way their expectations evolve depends on their prior experience.

Thanks for sharing this talk. That Venn diagramming coadaption idea was super nice!

I worked with Yedalog inside Google! Small world 😄