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you have a strange definition of immutable. Language is changing rather constantly. Take an 80 year old and have them listen to a conversation between 16 year o
by jshen 12y ago
you have a strange definition of immutable. Language is changing rather constantly. Take an 80 year old and have them listen to a conversation between 16 year olds. I bet there are a bunch of words they don't know the meaning of.
- steveklabnik 12y agoIn this analogy, you're talking about PPC specific assembly code, and I'm talking about C. I mean, yes, this is fuzzy. It's hard to even nail down what "English" _is_, for things like what you're saying. The broader point is that computer languages have a much smaller period of time where their particular language is spoken than human languages. We'll see if that changes in the future, but I doubt it.