Re:Programming languages are not languages (2018)
by imtringued on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:32AM
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I always wonder why anyone would bother with pictograms for a new language. The Latin alphabet is just a bunch of strokes that can be trivially written in cursive. When you consider all the awful writing systems that exist around the world the Latin alphabet appears to be near perfect. Toki Pona is just adding one entry on the list of languages with awful writing systems.
Re:Programming languages are not languages (2018)
by godelski on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:09PM
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Chinese is pretty efficient as a language. I think there are things that are more obvious in traditional though. There are advantages and disadvantages to each. But beware self bias because you (I'm assuming) grew up with an alphabet based language.
The only difference I see is that we don't speak C++ (though you could argue that sometimes we do). Mostly because it is pretty laborious and not worth the effort when we have a common tongue (pun intended) between us.
Spoken languages were created to communicate. They advanced to allow us to convey complex and highly abstract ideas. I wouldn't say programming languages were constructed with the same intent (at least they are intended to be interpreted by a computer, not by a human).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona