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Yeah that’s a bit like saying you enjoy spelling bees, whereas a language that is idiomatic enough to allow for competitive spelling to exist as a real thing ha
by garmaine 6y ago
Yeah that’s a bit like saying you enjoy spelling bees, whereas a language that is idiomatic enough to allow for competitive spelling to exist as a real thing has fundamentally failed at its job.
- msla 6y agoOrthography is orthogonal to a language, as transliteration proves. Putonghua is Putonghua regardless of whether it's written in Sinitic characters, Yale Romanization, or Pinyin. Also, don't run down someone else's hobbies. It's uncouth.
- garmaine 6y agoI’m not..? It’s fine to play code golf with CISC-y architectures. But being able to do that is an anti-goal to a compiler-friendly architecture, as RISC tries to be.