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Bringing Up Babel

28 points by Vigier 10y ago

wrong_variable 10y ago
Though it was about the ES6 compiler :(
- catacombs 10y ago
  Same lol.
- Pulce 10y ago
  Though it was about Katharine Hepburn!
kobeya 10y ago
You would not believe how much crap my partner and I had to put up with for raising our children bilingual. "You're going to confuse them." "That's so difficult." "They're going to do poorly in school." Or even "oh, that'll help them get a job!" (No, that is stupidest reason to raise a kid bilingual.) I'm glad there's a little bit of a reversal in views on this, now.
nmalaguti 10y ago
We use the term "programming language," but I wonder how much like learning a real language it actually is. Will we see some of the same benefits as bilingual individuals? Does learning multiple programming languages make it easier to learn other languages in adulthood?
- thwee 10y ago
  Well, there's language types, if you get into Comparative Programming Languages. There's imperative languages, query languages, object oriented languages, and mixes thereof. Maybe we could call them programming accents.
  - thwee 10y ago
    Imagine what that would do to dispel listing a key word list of languages ever touched, if we could just say, I know how to work with loops and functions, or I can compose systems of objects, or I know that a database can store, retrieve, and manipulate data. No more "I know C, C++, C++11, Javascript 5, Javascript 6, Python 2.7, Python 3.5!" If you're that dependent on people not looking up the syntax when they need to, you're either hacking into a computer at the site of the computer, or have no idea what the job entails.
thwee 10y ago
As a bilingual speaker: For someone ostensibly trying to fight stereotypes around bilingualism, this article sure covers all the stereotypes without doing much to dispel them. But I guess an article stating: Listen up, my kid speaks two languages! wouldn't have met word count. They're individuals who have two language tools at their disposal instead of just one.

Bringing Up Babel

28 points by Vigier 10y ago

wrong_variable 10y ago

Though it was about the ES6 compiler :(

catacombs 10y ago
Same lol.
Pulce 10y ago
Though it was about Katharine Hepburn!

kobeya 10y ago

You would not believe how much crap my partner and I had to put up with for raising our children bilingual. "You're going to confuse them." "That's so difficult." "They're going to do poorly in school." Or even "oh, that'll help them get a job!" (No, that is stupidest reason to raise a kid bilingual.) I'm glad there's a little bit of a reversal in views on this, now.

nmalaguti 10y ago

We use the term "programming language," but I wonder how much like learning a real language it actually is. Will we see some of the same benefits as bilingual individuals? Does learning multiple programming languages make it easier to learn other languages in adulthood?

thwee 10y ago
Well, there's language types, if you get into Comparative Programming Languages. There's imperative languages, query languages, object oriented languages, and mixes thereof. Maybe we could call them programming accents.
- thwee 10y ago
  Imagine what that would do to dispel listing a key word list of languages ever touched, if we could just say, I know how to work with loops and functions, or I can compose systems of objects, or I know that a database can store, retrieve, and manipulate data. No more "I know C, C++, C++11, Javascript 5, Javascript 6, Python 2.7, Python 3.5!" If you're that dependent on people not looking up the syntax when they need to, you're either hacking into a computer at the site of the computer, or have no idea what the job entails.

thwee 10y ago

As a bilingual speaker: For someone ostensibly trying to fight stereotypes around bilingualism, this article sure covers all the stereotypes without doing much to dispel them. But I guess an article stating: Listen up, my kid speaks two languages! wouldn't have met word count. They're individuals who have two language tools at their disposal instead of just one.