On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:41:54 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On 11/26/13 8:26 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
<Classic Rick Rant> > And will you be here to explain to time-travelling Shakespeare why we > are all of us speaking English completely wrong (to his ears)? And to my (Indian!!) ears when Tim says 'plank in the eye' where King James says 'beam' it does not cut it. Propositionally: Its a distinction without a difference Poetically: Well its subjective... to me its a real difference Likewise in programming: Propositionally: All languages are equal -- Turing complete -- and people discussing/inventing new ones are just wasting their and others' time Poetically: Like all artistic questions this is not settle-able once and for all and I must preface the following with an "I find that..." C is artistic in a very different way from Python and assembly and Haskell. And C++ is frighteningly unartistic It is my impression that the arguments that happen in/around programming languages are more-heat-less-light than in typical art/science because artistic -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list