Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming ...
by waterhouse on Saturday May 03, 2025 @02:49AM
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"There are those who tell us that any choice from among theoretically-equivalent alternatives is merely a question of taste. These are the people who bring up the Strong Church-Turing Thesis in discussions of programming languages meant for use by humans. They are malicious idiots. The only punishment which could stand a chance at reforming these miscreants into decent people would be a year or two at hard labor. And not just any kind of hard labor: specifically, carrying out long division using Roman numerals." — Stanislav Datskovskiy
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Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming ...
by godelski on Saturday May 03, 2025 @01:48PM
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No one is suggesting programming with lambda calculus. But it would be naïve to think lambda calculus isn't important. They serve different purposes.
We didn't:
bring up the Strong Church-Turing Thesis in discussions of programming languages meant for use by humans.