On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:14 PM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I think you may be looking for Larry Wall's statement in his State of the Onion talk: http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html He's comparing human and programming languages and says pretty much what you're saying. Of couse, he's probably not the first person to have made that remark in some form or another... so you may still be looking for someone else. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
