John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented

Re:John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented by btilly on Friday March 22, 2013 @02:44AM (#5421694)

Whoever said that was not a competent programmer, discussing programming languages.

Research into programming languages says that lines of code written/day tends to be surprisingly consistent. But the amount of functionality embedded in that code varies widely depending on the language.

Faster languages are ones that take over basic mechanics for you (eg memory management), infer things for you (eg compare C++ to go), or offer more convenient abstractions (eg compare scripting languages to C or Java). The difference is usually an order of magnitude, but can be more in the right circumstances.

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Re:John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented by tunesmith on Friday March 22, 2013 @03:18AM (#5421768)

I'm talking about spoken languages. Spanish, for instance - low amount of concepts per syllable, which is why it sounds so fast.

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Re:John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented by johnwatson11218 on Saturday March 23, 2013 @02:10AM (#5427442)

I read the same thing, the article I read also said that Chinese encodes more info per sound so it sounds like the speakers are speaking more slowly. English was somewhere in the middle.

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