On 03/04/2012 14:51, rusi wrote:
On Apr 3, 5:39 pm, Nathan Rice<nathan.alexander.r...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Don't think "underlying", instead think "canonical".
Ultimately, the answers to your questions exist in the world for you
to see. How does a surgeon describe a surgical procedure? How does a
chef describe a recipe? How does a carpenter describe the process of
building cabinets? Aside from specific words, they all use natural
language, and it works just fine.
A carpenter describes his carpentry-process in English
A CSist describes his programming-process in English (at least all my
CS books are in English)
A carpenter uses his tools -- screwdriver, saw, planer --to do
carpentry
A programmer uses his tools to to programming -- one of which is
called 'programming language'
Doing programming without programming languages is like using toenails
to tighten screws
The latter is extremely difficult if you bite your toenails :)
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Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
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