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suddenlybananasyesterday at 11:33 AM2 repliesview on HN

>Some languages are far more expressive and specialized in logical conditions, conditionals, recursion and reasoning. Like eskimos have 100 words for snow, but for boolean algebra.

This is simply not true.


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throw83849494yesterday at 12:28 PM

Well, just take varous english dialects you probably know, there are wast differences. Some strange languages do not even have numbers or recursion.

It is very arrogant to assume, no other language can be more advanced than English.

mylifeandtimesyesterday at 11:53 AM

Really? Because if one accepts that computer languages are languages, then it seems that we could identify one or two that are highly specialized in logical conditions etc. Prolog springs to mind.

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