Sapir Whorf evidence: only programmers have this multitude of concepts for "is": value identity; implementation identity; address identity; function identity; type identity; subtype; evaluates to; evaluates to same implementation, type, value, function, address; calls; yields ...
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Replying to @Plinz
extensional equality, judgmental equality, ... https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/equality …
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And this is just the beginning! Perhaps a third of English speakers operationally understand variables, but all programmers do. And try to find an true English-language equivalent of basic ideas like "scope", "closure", "stack", "tail recursion", "continuation", "duck typing"...
9:39 AM - 20 Apr 2018
from Cambridge, MA
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