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by m0th87 5351 days ago
Fair point. They can't, for example, randomly generate language semantics (how the hell would that work? :)

All in all, though, this paper goes much further in trying to derive language usability than any I've seen. And it does seem disturbing that randomly selected characters (even for a subset of the language) should fare as well as Perl's hand-picked syntax.