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 Jacques Chester on May 27th 2008, 02:16.

Larry Wall talked about this in one of his State of the Onion addresses. He said that you could consider human languages to be turing-complete; what varied was what you were required to do. Japanese requires more emphasis on correct formalities, Romance languages have gender-specific nouns, and so on.

In general Larry Wall's speeches are thought-provoking reading.

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