<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 2:42 AM Matti Nykänen <<a href="mailto:matti.johannes.nykanen@gmail.com">matti.johannes.nykanen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<ul><li>...but perhaps a nightmare for the newcomer? At least the book<br>
Felienne Hermans: <i>The Programmer's Brain</i>. (Manning,2021)
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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.</li></ul></div></blockquote></div><div>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.)</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>