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A comment on Ask HN: Does CS underplay language choice while linguistics overplays it?.

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?
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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
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