What is Expresiveness in a Computer Language
20050207, Xah Lee.
In languages human or computer, there's a notion of expressiveness.
English for example, is very expressive in manifestation, witness all
the poetry and implications and allusions and connotations and
dictions. There are a m
I think u are wrong.. I think perl is much more exrpressive in
semantics than Python..
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:20:34 -0700, raptor wrote:
> I think u are wrong.. I think perl is much more exrpressive in
> semantics than Python..
Well, with such great command of natural language as you are displaying,
how could anyone argue with your conclusion?
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On 10 Jul 2005 02:57:04 -0700, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Similarly, in computer languages, expressiveness is significant with
>respect to semantics, not syntactical variation.
>
It may just be me, but I tend to think of a computer language as a
tool for directing computers to perform s
Xah Lee wrote:
> What is Expresiveness in a Computer Language[...]
Just for the records at Google et.al. in case someone stumbles across Xah's
masterpieces in the future:
Xah is very well known as the resident troll in many NGs and his
'contributions' are less then useless
Pete Barrett wrote:
> On 10 Jul 2005 02:57:04 -0700, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Similarly, in computer languages, expressiveness is significant with
>>respect to semantics, not syntactical variation.
>>
>
> It may just be me, but I tend to think of a computer language as a
> too
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is Expresiveness in a Computer Language
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> 20050207, Xah Lee.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pete Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 10 Jul 2005 02:57:04 -0700, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Similarly, in computer languages, expressiveness is significant with
>>respect to semantics, not syntactical variation.
>>
>It may just be me, but I tend
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:20:34 -0700, raptor wrote:
>
>> I think u are wrong.. I think perl is much more exrpressive in
>> semantics than Python..
>
>Well, with such great command of natural language as you are displaying,
>how could anyone argue with you
It is easier to write code a computer can understand than others can
understand!
It is harder to read code than to write code!
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[Peter Barret wrote:]
> It may just be me, but I tend to think of a computer language as a
> tool for directing computers to perform specific actions. Do we talk
> about the expressiveness of a spade?
yes, it is just you. :-)
Your comparison is a very poor match. How can you even begin to
compa
Keith Thompson wrote
(in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
>\/| |\| __\,,\ /,,/__
> \||/ | | | jgs (__Y__)
> /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
> ==
Randy Howard wrote:
> Out of curiosity, does anyone remember who 'jgs' refers to
> above?
A Google search for "ascii art jgs" shows it's Joan Stark.
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The decree
Randy Howard wrote:
> Keith Thompson wrote
> (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
>
>
> >\/| |\| __\,,\ /,,/__
> > \||/ | | | jgs (__Y__)
> > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
> >
> The barbar generals will just grunt while the French generals
> will inspire with some poetic invocation.
For auction:
One authentic French army-issued rifle.
Only dropped once.
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Paul Bilnoski wrote:
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>> The barbar generals will just grunt while the French generals
>> will inspire with some poetic invocation.
>
> For auction:
> One authentic French army-issued rifle. Only dropped once.
What has that got to do with the king of the elephants?
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Randy Howard wrote:
> Keith Thompson wrote
> (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
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>
> >\/| |\| __\,,\ /,,/__
> > \||/ | | | jgs (__Y__)
> > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
> > ==
Most participants in the computering industry should benefit in reading
this essay:
George Orwell's “Politics and the English Language”, 1946.
Annotated:
http://xahlee.org/p/george_orwell_english.html
Xah
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