Hendrik van Rooyen <hend...@microcorp.co.za> writes: > 2) Is about as useful as stating that any Turing complete language and > processor pair is capable of solving any computable problem, given enough > time. So why are we not all programming in brainfuck?
Except the amount of circumlocution one language might happen to use over another is quite limited. > Or speaking the language of the people who wrote linear B? You mean Mycenaean Greek? There's still a few million people in Europe who speak a descendent of that very language. > When a language lacks a word for a concept like "window", then (I > believe :-) ), it kind of puts a crimp in the style of thinking that a > person will do, growing up with only that language. "Window" goes back to an Anglo-Saxon compound "windeye". Even if a word does not already exist in a given language for whatever novel item, the language is capable of creating from its own resources. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
