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Yes and no Code also contains the perspectives of the native language the coding system was written from - which for most code languages is English (and all too
by teunispeters 8y ago
Yes and no
Code also contains the perspectives of the native language the coding system was written from - which for most code languages is English (and all too often USA centric).
This may have indirect consequences, eg handling of date/time or spacial measurements or direct in terms of how code itself is organized. (the naming of functions has bias for instance - it directs the reader's attention towards assumptions ...)
I suppose I'd compare natural language fish to... Most (all?) computer programming languages would be remorah following English the shark.
I wonder what a computer language that came out of a completely different world view would look like?
- jtuente 8y agoJust check out this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6315913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6315913
- teunispeters 8y agoSome of those are just "translations on top of" which keep the metaphorical constructs in place. A lot though ... very interesting. Thank you!
- bookofjoe 8y ago"Arrival"
- TomMckenny 8y agoBeyond cultural influences, they also reflect a strange human conception of logic. We have an intuition of the concepts "AND", "OR" but not for "NAND" which would be much more convenient. We also merge implication with causation to create an idea of "if x the y". If a jelly fish, remorah or shark built a programing language, I too wonder what it would like like. Maybe we can get an AI to make one someday and see what happens.