Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> writes: > On 12/17/2009 3:17 PM, J Kenneth King wrote: >> A language is a thing. It may have syntax and semantics that bias it >> towards the conventions and philosophies of its designers. But in the >> end, a language by itself would have a hard time convincing a human >> being to adopt bad practises. > > Perhaps someone should make a research whether if you teach a language > to kids, where one group is taught the language filtered from "bad > words" and another group is taught all the languages' "bad words" on > purpose. Will one group have more behavioral problems compared to the > other?
I would be curious to know, but the test is likely impossible without trespassing on ethical boundaries. ;) I would hypothesize that you would not find an increase in behavioural problems. a) Without cultural context "bad words" have little meaning b) Behavioural issues can be attributed to several factors such as physiology, health, environment, etc. c) This has nothing to do with programming languages. A programmer that lacks critical thinking is a bad programmer. The language they use has no bearing on such human facilities. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
