On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:36:20PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i'm arguing that _neither_ english _nor_ german is perfectly suited to > code, since one needs to do some translation to get the sentence into > the form in which a human would say it. > > on top of that, i'm arguing that _no_ language fits this bill. think > about it -- if there were a human language that could be described as > easily as a computer language, we would be able to express that human > language as a finite state automaton, thereby solving the language > problem, and the whole of AI with it. there's a reason we write in a > formal, simplified language when we code!
I believe that. Pure vulcan logic. Yet we are confronted with the bare fact: people code in english. You could argue "American Hedgemony," except computer scientists not to fit that stereotype, so why did it happen? I keep telling people I never used to think I was better than everybody else until you keep telling me I am :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
