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Re:Why Aren't There C Conferences? by smnplk on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:35PM (#18506915)
You need to go further and accept that programming languages are also not tools.
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Re:Why Aren't There C Conferences? by voltagex_ on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @07:40PM (#18507192)
If they're not tools, then what are they? Where do you draw the line?
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Re:Why Aren't There C Conferences? by ken on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @10:08PM (#18507637)
They're languages, or notations. Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation there's different schools of thought on what's easiest to read, while the fundamentals are essentially the same.

Calculus is a tool, but how we write it is just the notation. Similarly, computer programming (or perhaps a subfield like functional programming) is the tool, and a particular language is just the notation for writing it down.

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Re:Why Aren't There C Conferences? by aswanson on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @09:30PM (#18507534)
Mental problem solving paradigms.
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