Re:Programming languages are not languages (2018)
by physicsyogi on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:48PM
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It seems like the author is wrong about the weak Sapir-Whorf hypothesis not applying to programming languages.
This is anecdotal, but once I learned Clojure, some things about the way I thought about problems changed. I didn't think about things in a functional way before that. The same has happened since I started learning Rust. Now I'm thinking about ownership and lifetimes. And in C I had to manually allocate and free memory.
Perhaps the hypothesis should be amended to refer to programming language paradigms, or something along those lines.
This is anecdotal, but once I learned Clojure, some things about the way I thought about problems changed. I didn't think about things in a functional way before that. The same has happened since I started learning Rust. Now I'm thinking about ownership and lifetimes. And in C I had to manually allocate and free memory.
Perhaps the hypothesis should be amended to refer to programming language paradigms, or something along those lines.