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Adds weight to the idea of the Blub Paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
by c-oreills 13y ago
Adds weight to the idea of the Blub Paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
- nnq 13y agoYep. And I think this linguistic influence means way more for programming languages than for natural languages - when thinking or communication to a human you can always "escape the language traps" by thinking visually or drawing/sketching or just showing things, but when you "communicate" with a computer your minds is basically "trapped" in the language (the only escape is being able to think the "domain language" instead, like thinking an algorithm in mathematical language or a business problem in business terms).
- serans 13y agoI think you can "escape" a programming language by sketching in quite the same way you can do it for natural languages, if not more easily. After all, we'll been using Flowcharts and the like since the beginning of computing.