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>It's just semantics. It's probably all the time spent on LtU mucking with my brain, but I have to suppress a minor rage every time I see this idiom. Does this
by iskander 16y ago
>It's just semantics.
It's probably all the time spent on LtU mucking with my brain, but I have to suppress a minor rage every time I see this idiom. Does this happen to any other programming languages people?
- prodigal_erik 16y agoYeah. I don't know how "words mean things" came to be regarded as a counterargument to anything.
- silentbicycle 16y ago"In popular culture, people like to say 'It’s just semantics!', which is a kind of put-down: it implies that their correspondent is quibbling over minor details of meaning in a jesuitical way. But communication is all about meaning [...], therefore, we will wear the phrase 'It’s just semantics!' as a badge of honor, because semantics leads to discourse which (we hope) leads to civilization. Just semantics. That’s all there is." -Shriram Krishnamurthi, _Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation_ (http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-04-26/ http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/200...) In other words: Absolutely. (Good, free book, btw.)