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> Where have all the hackers gone? To a newspeak school to unlearn precise terminology. So to translate OP, "soil, surface, and atmosphere" apparently refer t
by eternalban 3y ago
> Where have all the hackers gone?
To a newspeak school to unlearn precise terminology.
So to translate OP, "soil, surface, and atmosphere" apparently refer to semantics, syntax, and runtime.
("Pedantic" is a favored word these days. In my days, objections to those who actually knew something about CS was that they are "academic", and "theoretical".)
- nixpulvis 3y agoI don't know. Syntax and Semantic are pretty much both Surface in this metaphor. The "Soil" seems more like the Environment/OS, while the "Atmosphere" is also the OS? Maybe I'm just throwing wrenches But yea, maybe we can't have a PL conversation without also having a conversation about our own language? Ugh
- xigoi 3y agoIt's more like: soil = runtime, surface = language, runtime = community.