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Wow, thanks for mentioning that. I am used to being impressed by people on here, but the idea that he is this talented and blind is beyond my comprehension.

Man I suck as a programmer; I complain about every little thing and barely ever program.

The idea of it registering as a printer is ingenious.

Hopefully they introduce namespaces (like matriona) and the type system of strongtalk with gradual typing.

edit: just realized this was an april fools :(

What's the difference between 'determines' and 'influences'? I mean isn't that just a sliding scale? If a concept is incredibly difficult to formulate in a given language, could it not be said that the language has limited my thinking?

Do you have to manipulate text? Perl is probably better than C for that.

Do you have to write a program that operates on lists? Lisp probably is better than Java.

Do you have to write a formal proof? Coq is probably better than Python.

Do you have to write distributed networking code? Erlang is probably better than PHP.

How can the strengths of each language not be direct support for linguistic relativity? All that means is that certain concepts are easier to manipulate and understand in certain languages.

Where is it written that programming languages can't support the theory of linguistic relativity?

Are you kidding me?

Are you claiming the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis isn't true on ycombinator?

This is a forum famous for talking about blub languages and lisp. And if it's true for artificial languages, that's a strong indicator that it's true for human ones.

But sadly there are very few studies comparing programming languages and I've never seen one comparing human languages qualitatively.