David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish • 1 month agoThe Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteriamedium.commessage-square23arrow-up139arrow-down10
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minus-square@200fiftylinkEnglish4•edit-21 month ago Language designers are obligated to be linguists as well. This is why I love Perl. Larry Wall has a linguistics background and created the only programming language where you can conjugate variables. (I know it sounds like I’m making fun of perl here, and I am, but I also legitimately do love perl)
This is why I love Perl. Larry Wall has a linguistics background and created the only programming language where you can conjugate variables.
(I know it sounds like I’m making fun of perl here, and I am, but I also legitimately do love perl)