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Thursday, October 30, 2008

What if programming languages where like spoken languages?

Okay, so programming languages evolve. C turns to C++/# and etc.  But the compilers are different as are the "rules".  Actual spoken language is a million times more adaptive.  Words have very different meanings based on context and pronunciation.  For a stupid example, take "Bitch" when spoken at Westiminster Kennel Club and "Bitch" spoken in a hip hop video.  Same word, different compiler so to speak.  The point is that it's infinitely more flexible, context/timing/pronunciation all have meaning.  Could this metaphor be expanded to computer languages as well.  I am not sure, but I suspect that the answer is in the compiler paradigm.

O.K. so thinking more about this concept I guess what I am talking about is something like a wiki compiler.  In the text messaging/chat context, BRB, FWIW, IMHO, WRT, AFAIK, LOL,  all have commonly understood meanings.  Could not the same paradigm be applied to programming languages?

Just Sayin.

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