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Language is something you can conduct a dialog in. In most of the computer languages you can't. I'm not saying that C++ (or any other) is in any way inferior t
by okaleniuk 7y ago
Language is something you can conduct a dialog in. In most of the computer languages you can't.
I'm not saying that C++ (or any other) is in any way inferior to Erlang because of human-readable error messages. But this property to communicate back and forth in the same language is definitely interesting.
- banachtarski 7y agoRight but if you make the language as natural as possible for the human, you introduce layers of abstraction that make it difficult or impossible to understand what's happening at the machine level.