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Re:Programming languages are not languages (2018) on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:44PM (#22872387)
According to Sapir-Whorf, what I think is affected by what the language I think in, that lets me express my own thoughts to myself. If there's no concept in English for an idea that occurs to me, it may remain muddled or I just might not become fully conscious of it.

This is not the case for programming languages, because programming languages, even non-imperative ones, only have one mode: how to do something. They are not a way of describing the world. If I can't figure out the C++ code necessary to accomplish the task I want, that doesn't mean I can't imagine what that task is. Determining the task and figuring out how to code them are very different.

Re:Rot8000 on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @03:10PM (#18497243)
There's a test for BMP characters being even: https://github.com/rottytooth/rot8000/blob/master/Rottytooth...

More critically, if the # of valid chars changes, previously rot-8000'd text will no longer be reversible through the tool

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