I am looking for a quote (from Whorf/Sapir/Wittgenstein/Humboldt dunno... that 'school')
It goes something like this: What characterizes a language is not what we can say in it but what we must -- like it or not -- say. A demo of this is D Hofstadter's http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html which by inverting sexist/racist assumptions in English, makes for a hilarious read. No I am not talking politics here, just want some references for a programming course in which I want to point out that - C programmers need to talk memory-mgmt whether they want to or not - Java programmers need to talk objects/classes likewise etc I believe I may have seen that quote here so asking... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
