Irrational Exuberance

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A brief essay considering the link between spoken languages and programming languages and Paul Graham's theory of Blub.

You are responding to this comment written by Seth Delackner on May 26th 2008, 05:38.

There is a very real difference in the expressiveness of spoken languages, but since we grow up with our languages from a much earlier age than anyone even starts speaking a computer language, it is commensurately more difficult to notice the constraints your own spoken language applies to your very most basic thoughts.

Having spent several years now living in Japan, and a much shorter time in China, many oddities of thought and behavior I have come across could only be explained by the unique difficulties pictographic and tonally significant languages create, a kind of nightmare version of the complaints people have about meaningful whitespace or endless parentheses.

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