Evidence-based programming language design (PhD thesis)
I don&#x27;t know that I would associate &quot;evidence&quot; with &quot;coder agreement&quot;.<p>The point of evidenced-based X (medicine, teaching, etc.) is improvement and change, things that people are often hostile to: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Semmelweis_reflex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Semmelweis_reflex</a><p>Research found that the number one cause of errors in learning Python was its case-sensitivity, and you can guess what people&#x27;s reactions were when it was suggested that python support a case-insensitive option: (NIMPY - not in my python)
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