On 2018-01-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> We're talking about *programmers* here -- if they can't cope with the
> highly stylised textual medium in which they work, they're going to
> really struggle to, you know, actually program.
Well, to be fair, many of them do (struggle to actually program,
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 3:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:48:15 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
>> Text is a highly stylized unnatural medium
> [chomp]
>
>> That people who have not been cultured in a certain way can do
>> aggravating things like talking with pics instead of tex
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:48:15 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Text is a highly stylized unnatural medium
Hmmm. I think it is no more "unnatural" than whale songs or the extremely
formalised dancing rituals of birds or any other animal communication.
Our species just takes this communication to a hig
