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Why do you need a PhD in linguistics to write code?

• deanstag 6y ago
  I am sure that was hyperbole.
  • memexy 6y ago
    Yes. I know.
• random04243 6y ago
  It's not just writing code, it's writing code that needs to be aware of every linguistic nuance of your native language, so that you can coax the data to come out as a human-readable sentence. [1] [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilambda/Examples https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilambda/Examples
  • memexy 6y ago
    How would you improve it?
  • Nemo_bis 6y ago
    What, didn't Chomsky already solve that in the 1960s? /s