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The highest estimate for number of natural languages I've seen is about 7,000 living. But I think you'd have to have a very, very restrictive definition of prog
by rvense 6y ago
The highest estimate for number of natural languages I've seen is about 7,000 living. But I think you'd have to have a very, very restrictive definition of programming language for it to be lower than that.
- endergen 6y agoDefinitely depends on the definition, it seems every programmer and their mother has some toy programming language they poke at.
- mhd 6y agoMost of which would probably more qualify as dialects in natural language terms. We're all mostly speaking broken Algol with some fancy loan words and maybe a slight lisp.