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> There just is no evidence that people of different languages think differently. Languages are used to express ideas. We have debates on this very website ab
by thwarted 6y ago
> There just is no evidence that people of different languages think differently.
Languages are used to express ideas. We have debates on this very website about the expressiveness of languages, how expressiveness of language enables (in)efficiency, and which languages are best for a given task.
The expression of a thought influences and, in some cases, limits the kinds of thoughts that can be expressed. This is evident when you see things like someone "writing Java in perl".
- perl4ever 6y agoI've been writing perl in VBA. It seems to me that this, or your example, demonstrate the opposite of language controlling thought. People have thoughts that are very different from the norm in the language they are using, and they find a way to express them. In fact, I've been recently trying to express my usual programming concepts in a language that's far more of a straitjacket than VBA.