Re:Aheui: Esoteric programming language designed for Hangul
by semi-extrinsic on Sunday March 05, 2017 @11:38AM
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> The social aspects of language influence are much more interesting.
Sure, but it's pretty much impossible to make a falsifiable hypothesis in this area that can actually be (ethically) tested. Like, how do you separate the effect of having Japanese as your primary language from the effect of growing up in a Japanese culture (whether actually in Japan or not)?
> [CS concepts] are math, they don't change culturally
Agree.
Re:Aheui: Esoteric programming language designed for Hangul
by coldtea on Sunday March 05, 2017 @11:46AM
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>Like, how do you separate the effect of having Japanese as your primary language from the effect of growing up in a Japanese culture (whether actually in Japan or not)?
I guess by using people from bilingual societies, who speak one or the other language within the same culture.
That's not entirely settled, but even so, those to me are the least interesting (and least expected to be true) aspects of Whorfianism. The social aspects of language influence are much more interesting.
That said, I don't see programming languages in other, err, languages discovering any novel ways of programming. That's mostly because in the end they always should just translate to the underlying CPU model and CS concepts, and those are math, they don't change culturally.