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There's also linguists that love comparing spoken languages. But for most people, most spoken languages are good enough to communicate - just like most programm
by axod 17y ago
There's also linguists that love comparing spoken languages. But for most people, most spoken languages are good enough to communicate - just like most programming languages are good enough to express what you want.
- scott_s 17y agoThat is a fair point, but it's orthogonal to the discussion at hand.
- jacquesm 17y agoBy comparing things we learn. By comparing programming languages we learn things about them, such as how easy it is to express yourself. By doing that over time programming languages evolve. If we didn't compare programming languages you'd be programming ALGOL right now and the whole web things (much less the internet) would have never happened.