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Because it is broken. It's not broken if you've already learned it and internalized the terminology; it's broken for everyone else because it's needlessly diffi
by ajkjk 9y ago
Because it is broken. It's not broken if you've already learned it and internalized the terminology; it's broken for everyone else because it's needlessly difficult to learn (and actively dissuades people from wanting to learn it, hence all the articles evangelizing Lisp).
- lispm 9y agoOld communties have old words. Check some UNIX command names sometimes. C doesn't rename its operators either. Renaming stuff every few years dosn't make it easier to learn.
- craigsmansion 9y agoBy that rationale every foreign language is broken, and, maybe more pointedly, every language but Chinese (or possibly Spanish) is broken and needlessly difficult to learn.
- benlorenzetti 9y agoThe trend of history since babel seems to be going in this direction. If there is eventually a universal common tongue this rational will be proven right.