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DESCRIPTION:Programming languages are repeatedly touted to have strange edg
 e cases. Bugbears. Footguns. Wats. The canonical 'wat' talk (https://www.d
 estroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat) shows some of these for Ruby and JavaScri
 pt\, but doesn’t go into any detail into the ‘why’\n\nIn this talk\,
  take a tour of a dozen different programming languages\, from JavaScript 
 to PowerShell\, Python to Perl\, Elixir and more\; and see not only the 
 ‘wat’\, but the ‘why’: is it a misunderstanding based on assumptio
 n from another programming language? A compiler optimisation? A design con
 sideration? A known bug that can’t be fixed due to backwards compatibili
 ty concerns?\n\nAttendees will come away from this talk with a greater und
 erstanding about how to turn a ‘wat’ into a ‘why’.
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LOCATION:Main Stream
SUMMARY:[Keynote] Turning 'wat' into 'why' - Katie McLaughlin
URL:https://pretalx.com/pyladiescon-2024/talk/VKBBDW/
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