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throw83849494 7 hours ago

You obviously do not speak other languages. Other cultures have different constrains and different grammar.

For example thinking in modern US English generates many thoughts, to keep correct speak at right cultural context (there is only one correct way to say People Of Color, and it changes every year, any typo makes it horribly wrong).

Some languages are far more expressive and specialized in logical conditions, conditionals, recursion and reasoning. Like eskimos have 100 words for snow, but for boolean algebra.

It is well proven that thinking in Chinese needs far less tokens!

With this caveman mod you strip out most of cultural complexities of anglosphere, make it easier for foreigners and far simpler to digest.

suddenlybananas 6 hours ago | parent [-]

>Some languages are far more expressive and specialized in logical conditions, conditionals, recursion and reasoning. Like eskimos have 100 words for snow, but for boolean algebra.

This is simply not true.

throw83849494 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well, just take varous english dialects you probably know, there are wast differences. Some strange languages do not even have numbers or recursion.

It is very arrogant to assume, no other language can be more advanced than English.

mylifeandtimes 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Really? Because if one accepts that computer languages are languages, then it seems that we could identify one or two that are highly specialized in logical conditions etc. Prolog springs to mind.

malnourish 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, really. The concept GP is alluding to is called the Sapir-Worf hypothesis, which is largely non scientific pop linguistics drivel. Elements of a much weaker version have some scientific merit.

Programming languages are not languages in the human brain nor the culture sense.

skydhash 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We have already proven that all the computing mechanism that those languages derive their semantic forms are equivalent to the Turing Machine. So C and Prolog are only different in terms of notations, not in terms of result.