[self-interest] APL class projects

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 20:19:36 UTC 2011


I think I derailed the list. Sorry!

On Feb 18, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, no the inuit didn't:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow
> 
> On 18/02/2011, tb at tcltalk.ath.cx <tb at tcltalk.ath.cx> wrote:
> > Casey Ransberger schrieb:
> >>
> >>
> >> In linguistics there was a longstanding debate about whether or not the
> >> languages one spoke affected what sorts of thoughts were available to
> >> one; it was a big theme in Orwell's 1984, for example.
> >>
> >> Before Ruby and then Smalltalk, (until Ruby I hadn't really looked at
> >> any functional programming seriously,) I wouldn't know how to use a
> >> closure. I might not even have known the term.
> >>
> >> In general it seems that linguists have largely abandoned this notion,
> >> but it sure does seem pertinent to programming, doesn't it?
> >>
> >
> > IMO it does, definitely. It's a matter of categories. The Inuit had more
> > than twenty words for snow, because they where in need of a detailed
> > description of their environment to survive.
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> -Ian Woollard
> 
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