#pragmatics
Maybe they’re concerned about children going hungry & people going without paychecks, especially right before the holidays.
Why is everyone so cynical?
Regressives are the ones who take nothing over something. Pragmatics take something over nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Pointers are dangerous, yet powerful!

Languages provide them to support linked data structures and to provide efficient access to objects on the stack. Check out my latest Programming Language Pragmatics video, which talks about pointers and their static and dynamic semantics.
PLP 8.5 part 1: Pointers
YouTube video by Jonathan Aldrich
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November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This may also will mute some of the court cases which could have been devastating for gov agencies

Remember this from Saul Alinsky:
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
we just call it

Phonology + Morphology
Syntax
Semantics + Pragmatics
November 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
People don’t want to admit their hair trigger reaction when Stalin is mentioned has everything to do with anti communism. None of you get this incensed when Churchill or US presidents are brought up. I bet you voted Kamala despite her role in genocide. You understand pragmatics when you want to.
October 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Unions are data types that can hold one of several different representations at run time - allowing you to represent data structures with different variants, or in systems code, interpret the same bytes in two different ways. Learn all about unions in my latest Programming Language Pragmatics video!
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"While more than 80% of young learners in primary school learn a foreign language and research on this learner population has been conducted for more than two decades now, pragmatics has received little attention..."

Read on here:
Pragmatics in Primary EFL Education
This month we published Second Language Pragmatics and Young Language Learners edited by Gila A. Schauer, Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savić and Anders Myrset. In this post the editors expla…
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October 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
What iteration and recursion constructs do programming languages provide, and how are they implemented?

In my latest Programming Language Pragmatics video, I talk about constructs from while loops through generators to tail-recursive functions, along with implementation approaches and tradeoffs.
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Accepted for publication: my work on digital language ideologies of generative AI. To appear soon in Internet Pragmatics!
October 17, 2025 at 6:38 AM
스킬 기능은 주로 코딩이나 디자인과 연관된 것이 많지만 텍스트 분석도 가능하다. 마크다운 형식으로 지침을 명세해 주니까 일단 형식은 잘 갖추어서 대답해 준다.
October 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If you liked these titles on pragmatics, you might also like "Second Language Pragmatics and Young Language Learners" edited by Gila A. Schauer, Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savić and Anders Myrset.

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October 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
How do programming languages define control flow?

In my latest Programming Language Pragmatics video, I talk about precedence, order of evaluation, and expression vs. statements. Control flow matters most for side effects; I talk about tradeoffs involved and forms of assignment.
October 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“Have you seen the new strawberry” to mean “Have you seen the new thing that freaks LLMs out” is good pragmatics
October 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
how in all these systems, pragmatics, ambiguity and context play an important role in "meaning-making" and "communication" shifting away from a mono-modal code-model both for human language and animal communication, with implications for language evolution
October 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Here I will pick just "one" thing the growing realisation of the importance of multimodality (and its interaction with pragmatics) such as in conceptions of language as a multimodally integrated system. This is reflected in descriptions of linguistic communication (e.g. gesture-speech integration) +
October 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I am delighted that our edited volume "Second Language #Pragmatics and Young Language Learners - #EFL #Primary #School Contexts in #Europe" is now available www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/.... We are very gratetful to our contributors who accompanied us on this journey!
October 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
One of these days I'm going to have to write a pragmatics squib, aren't I. Make it a thing. Just for you
October 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
How does one write efficient code for modern processors?

My new Programming Language Pragmatics video covers a big part of the answer: using instruction scheduling and register allocation to reduce pipeline stalls that compromise performance!
October 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Christos Dimoulas kicks off day 2 of #icfpsplash25 with our second keynote!

The Rational Programmer:
A Method for Investigating Programming Language Pragmatics
October 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I see you like to discuss the ontology of the checks rather than the pragmatics of the situation, enjoy your philosophical soliloquies
October 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
You'd think after all these years that Corbyn wouldn't be quite so incompetent and ignorant of reality.
Maybe Polanski could teach him a thing or two about the pragmatics of progressive politics.
October 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
How is data represented in computer architectures?

My latest Programming Language Pragmatics video gives compiler writers information about twos-complement integers, floating point numbers, and little-endian vs. big-endian byte order, useful for manipulating data in target code.
October 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM