Programming Isn't Math, It's Linguistics

Compilers and Humans have the same problem. We're all terrible at understanding each other. Many programming bugs are fundamentally linguistic confusion. Syntactic irregularities affect human languages just like computer languages! Join me for some formal language theory, a lot of C++, and some "recreational" insults. --- Timestamps: 00:00 Language Ambiguity 03:37 Compiler Theory (it's easy I promise) 07:20 Syntax Quirks 14:57 Lexical Quirks 18:30 Semantic Quirks 25:00 Writing my own Compiler --- Check out my X account for cool Computer Science stuff! https://x.com/lauriewired --- My GitHub of all example code: https://github.com/LaurieWired/SyntaxParsingAmbiguities