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> Languages are not created in a planned, thought-through manner. Instead they are designed by human beings. What the heck does that mean? Programming languag
by bergstromm466 6y ago
> Languages are not created in a planned, thought-through manner. Instead they are designed by human beings.
What the heck does that mean?
Programming languages, like languages (English, French, Chinese), evolve organically to solve new problems, no?
Anyways maybe I misread it, and underlying it is your desire for the next version or iteration, because you’ve bounced up against some limits or boundaries with the current iterations?
- wodenokoto 6y agoParent means that there isn't a long term strategy for which languages needs to be developed.
- bergstromm466 6y agoYeah. Maybe it’s another way of saying that language is one example of an emergent phenomena or system.[1] In other words, it’s something that evolves, with new things arising, that emerges organically from experimentation and practice, due to certain environmental factors/conditions. Where practice and experimentation come before theory. [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=eh7qvXfGQho https://youtube.com/watch?v=eh7qvXfGQho
- pjc50 6y agoFrench is very much a centrally planned language.
- progre 6y agoCentral planning for languages is unstable. In fact, that's how we ended up with french in the first place. Roman Latin was tought and formally used in a "correct" way that slowly drifted from how normal people actually used the language. A few hundred years of this we get the fossilized academic/church latin and actually every day useful living languages like french and italian.