News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Ask HN: Does CS underplay language choice while linguisti... by slwvx on Friday May 30, 2025 @05:21PM (#44139987)
Not sure I buy the idea that linguistics says that the specific language is important. Mb a reference?
Re:Ask HN: Does CS underplay language choice while linguisti... by ottaborra on Friday May 30, 2025 @08:22PM (#44140949)
Linguistic relativity seems to be a thing. Because of the differences I would think it could be inferred that an ordering amongst languages exists. In the least a partial ordering exists, so maybe some "specific" languages that are better exists
Re:Ask HN: Does CS underplay language choice while linguisti... by pavel_lishin on Friday May 30, 2025 @05:15PM (#44139953)
I don't think either of those generalizations are accurate.
Re:Ask HN: Does CS underplay language choice while linguisti... by Jtsummers on Friday May 30, 2025 @05:40PM (#44140130)
Most amichail submissions don't make sense unless you assume they're high or using a random question generator.
Re:Ask HN: Does CS underplay language choice while linguisti... by pavel_lishin on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:11PM (#44162540)
Boy, you weren't kidding.
Re:Ask HN: Does CS underplay language choice while linguisti... by ottaborra on Friday May 30, 2025 @08:23PM (#44140956)
> Computer scientists might argue that all programming languages are Turing complete anyway and the choice of which one to use is not that important

Efficiency and the real world will eat them(comp scientists who think like this) up for breakfast