What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders

Re:What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders by BrandonM on Monday November 24, 2014 @04:16PM (#8654784)

Programming languages are absolutely for communicating with humans. Source comments are just one trivial proof of that.

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Re:What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders by vacri on Monday November 24, 2014 @05:28PM (#8655095)

Your trivial proof is "this thing that is explicitly not part of the language"? The whole point of comments is to say "these next characters are not part of language -foo-, so don't compile/interpret them".

And if you notice, comments are written in a 'traditional' human language, usually English.

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Re:What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders by eah13 on Monday November 24, 2014 @05:33PM (#8655110)

if code wasn't a human language we'd write it in binary, straight to disk.

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Re:What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders by vacri on Monday November 24, 2014 @07:04PM (#8655512)

I can see my belt, but that doesn't mean the purpose of my belt is to be seen. You're twisting my original comment to say something it didn't say.

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