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Programming languages don't entirely remove ambiguity: they isolate themselves from it. Everything in a program is unambiguous, but no useful program stays ent
by thomastjeffery 3y ago
Programming languages don't entirely remove ambiguity: they isolate themselves from it.
Everything in a program is unambiguous, but no useful program stays entirely within its own black box.
Ambiguity still exists between programs. This ambiguity is the source of incompatibility.