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@david_chisnall @baltauger

Thing is, programming 'languages' aren't languages at all. The use of that word is a metaphor that doesn't work when moving to academic study of actual communication.

This is deeply uninteresting to the linguist.

1 January at 18:54 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.seattle.wa.us
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naught101

@caffetiel @david_chisnall @baltauger

Huh, really? Are you using the word "language" to stand in for "natural language"? Or is there some broader definition of "language" that excludes programming languages?

1 January at 21:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Psittacus arabica

@naught101 @david_chisnall @baltauger

Conlangs are still at least theoretically useful as languages? Hamlet was translated into Klingon, people write poetry in Valyrian, Na'vi of all things is used, and conferences are held in Esperanto.

You can't do that with Assembly or C# or whatever else. It's just a metaphor to extend the word's use to them.

2 January at 5:14 | Open on social.seattle.wa.us
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