Got a Doubt ! Wanting for your Help ! Plz make it ASAP !
rusi
rustompmody at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 04:32:54 EST 2013
On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:41:54 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On 11/26/13 8:26 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
<Classic Rick Rant>
> And will you be here to explain to time-travelling Shakespeare why we
> are all of us speaking English completely wrong (to his ears)?
And to my (Indian!!) ears when Tim says 'plank in the eye' where King James
says 'beam' it does not cut it.
Propositionally: Its a distinction without a difference
Poetically: Well its subjective... to me its a real difference
Likewise in programming:
Propositionally: All languages are equal -- Turing complete -- and people
discussing/inventing new ones are just wasting their and others' time
Poetically: Like all artistic questions this is not settle-able once
and for all and I must preface the following with an "I find that..."
C is artistic in a very different way from Python and assembly
and Haskell. And C++ is frighteningly unartistic
It is my impression that the arguments that happen in/around programming languages are more-heat-less-light than in typical art/science because artistic
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