[OPINION] - does language really matter if they all do the same thing?

[Steve Lamb]

On 2004-01-23, Jonathan Daugherty <cygnus at cprogrammer.org> wrote:
> On a more conjectural note, spoken languages are more than just ways of
> expressing ideas; by virtue of being evolving systems of communication, they
> serve as an insight into the culture and people that developed them.
> Programming languages are the same in that respect.

    Which is a rather interesting statement as quite a few people who study
languages tend to ignore or discount certain languages because they are
artifical (Esperanto, for example).  :)

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