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There isn't a problem. To me it's more that a highly disproportionate number of programmers are drawn to languages and the Japanese language in particular. So
by solarmist 4y ago
There isn't a problem. To me it's more that a highly disproportionate number of programmers are drawn to languages and the Japanese language in particular.
So I'm interested in why that's the case with Japanese, but not with German or Chinese as examples off the top of my head.
The best explanation I can think of is the popularity of Japanese culture leads to a high enough exposure to the language to catch the attention of highly technical people who love finding and uncovering patterns in things. But that doesn't feel complete.
- tantalor 4y agoSorry I think that joke went over your head. 1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creates Haskell, a pure, non-strict, functional language. Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?" http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
- solarmist 4y agoHehehe. Yup. Completely missed the joke.