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sol


How come there are no linguists among us?

2 2023-10-05 21:05

I'm here, so there's at least one.

Natural languages and programming languages are different to the point that I don't like having to call them both languages. Yes, you can convey both instructions and information, but fundamentally, programming requires you to eliminate ambiguity and make the implicit explicit, whereas speech is basically shorthand. It's completely dependent on ambiguity, implicitness, and redundancy to achieve robust transmission through an unreliable, low-bandwidth medium. The whole point of digitization is bypassing those limitations.

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