The Sapir Whorf hypothesis (language defines what we can perceive and think) is mostly wrong for natural language, but true for programming. Computer languages don't differ in what they can do but in how they let us think.
Isn't "rationalwiki" like conservapedia, i.e. a deliberately biased wiki that thinks wikipedia is not ideological enough for their audience? :) I think that the strong form of Sapir Whorf is true for some areas of programming. Learning Lisp and Haskell changes the way we think.
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it has more biases than wikipedia. I thought that particular article was alright though. mostly linked to it for clarity, the wiki article has a lot of history and biography and less discussion of strong vs. weak versions. agree with you re: functional programming
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They might be worse than conservapedia in the sense that they are a troll farm http://wikipediawehaveaproblem.com/2018/01/the-attack-of-david-gerards-50ft-troll-farm/ …
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