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> A painting is a form of language, but can a painting be said? I suppose if you use a very broad definition of language, that might be true, but in the sense
by meepmorp 12y ago
> A painting is a form of language, but can a painting be said?
I suppose if you use a very broad definition of language, that might be true, but in the sense of natural languages, paintings are not generally a form of language. They may be a form of symbolic expression, but that doesn't make them a language.
- duckingtest 12y agoA programming language is not a natural language. The quote refers to Hoon specifically.
- tree_of_item 12y agoThe programming languages you're familiar with don't consider themselves to be similar to natural languages. This one apparently does, and why not? Why do we even use the word "language" to refer to our computer UIs when we balk at mundane language phenomena like context-sensitivity?