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> You're conflating different things now: simplicity vs familiarity. we're talking about humans, you cannot not conflate them. > When talking about simplicity
by jcelerier 6y ago
> You're conflating different things now: simplicity vs familiarity.
we're talking about humans, you cannot not conflate them.
> When talking about simplicity people generally compare all languages as if one has little or no familiarity with them.
that's a philosophically pointless exercice. Things have to be assessed in their actual, real-world context to bear any relevance !
- hnlmorg 6y ago...and you asses something by comparison. Having different starting points isn't a comparison, it's a bias. I don't have an issue with people having a bias (we all have our own preferences, our own strengths and weaknesses, and stuff we just enjoy more than other stuff). But lets not pretend it's anything more than a bias if you're not willing to compare things from an even starting point.