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In these studies advocating for the unyielding rigor of statically-typed languages, it's amusing that the authors choose to express their arguments in English:
by maartenscholl 3y ago
In these studies advocating for the unyielding rigor of statically-typed languages, it's amusing that the authors choose to express their arguments in English: a language where "read" and "lead" rhyme, but "read" and "lead" don't. Perhaps a more consistent constructed language like Lojban would have better suited the papers' theses.
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- zabzonk 3y agoum, they both rhyme - read (i read a book yesterday) and lead (a metal). and then read (what i am doing about what i am typing now) and lead (what you do to take a pig to market).
- maartenscholl 3y agoThank you for the English lesson, but you claim you've never encountered ambiguous overloaded identifiers that you couldn't resolve while developing a parser? "He took the lead"?
- zabzonk 3y agoof course that's ambiguous - english is not context free
- maartenscholl 3y agoThen you can't claim they both rhyme, because I didn't provide that context...
- pvg 3y agoand lead (what you do to take a pig to market). That's a curious example. There's surprisingly little on pigleading out there! https://www.google.com/search?q=%22lead+a+pig%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22lead+a+pig%22
- erik_seaberg 3y agoMaking a computer understand a different language takes one command to the package manager. In a human being that would take years, and never completely succeed. English is obviously deranged but this audience is stuck with it.