For most of the thirty-some years that I’ve been paid to program, I’ve worked with Assembly language, C, or C++. There have been some diversions to Java, which is pretty painless for a C++ programmer, and always the odd short job or two in anything from Perl to Haskell. But for the last three months [...]

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Back in the day the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was all the rage in the study of linguistics. With apologies to those who actually work in the field, I’ll crudely summarize it as the idea that the language you speak both constrains and influences how you think. The idea says that if your language only has one [...]

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