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That tracks. Language is a kind of technology, that evolves to adapt to new uses. A simple elegant python program that fits on a slide might have taken tens of
by mkoubaa 1y ago
That tracks. Language is a kind of technology, that evolves to adapt to new uses. A simple elegant python program that fits on a slide might have taken tens of thousands of lines of obtuse fortran.
- kristianc 1y agoYep, and Kant's writing in many ways is like early compiler design. Painful. Necessary. And built at a time when the cognitive architecture didn’t yet have shortcuts. He was writing in metaphysical FORTRAN.