On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Tristan Slominski < tristan.slomin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> a lot of people seem to have the opinion the language a person >> communicates in locks them into a certain way of thinking. > > > There is an entire book on the subject, "Metaphors We Live By", which > profoundly changed how I think about thinking and what role metaphor plays > in my thoughts. Below is a link to what looks like an article by the same > title from the same authors. > > http://www.soc.washington.edu/users/brines/lakoff.pdf > I'm certainly interested in how metaphor might be applied to programming. I write, regarding 'natural language' programming [1] that metaphor and analogy might be addressed with a paraconsistent logic - i.e. enabling developers to apply wrong functions but still extract some useful meaning from them. [1] http://awelonblue.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/natural-programming-language/
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