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Yes, and I think most programmers have profoundly experienced the effect, you are not thinking the same way before and after learning a new programming paradigm
by jensnockert 15y ago
Yes, and I think most programmers have profoundly experienced the effect, you are not thinking the same way before and after learning a new programming paradigm.
You don't think the same way after learning LISP, Erlang, or...
- timinman 15y agoCross-reference this Google Tech Talk by Matz, the creator Ruby: http://goo.gl/rAxIL http://goo.gl/rAxIL.
- DanielRibeiro 15y agoPrecisely the arguments of many posts about programming: * http://brandonbyars.com/2008/05/13/beating-sapir-whorf/ http://brandonbyars.com/2008/05/13/beating-sapir-whorf/ * The creator of ruby on the "The power and philosophy of ruby: or how to create Babel-17" [1][2][3] However these usually imply the weak version of Sapir Whorf, not the strong one. [1] http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/oscon2003/mgp00001.html http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/oscon2003/mgp00001.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#cite_note-48 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#cite_note... [3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#cite_ref-48 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#cite_ref-...
- wisty 15y agoDidn't Einstein say something like "all mathematical advances are notational"?
- DasIch 15y agoThere is a difference between programming paradigms and programming languages.