So, in the spirit of the article, how about programming languages? FORTRAN - Masculine. A jock for sure. COBOL - Feminine. Probably French. In a pink sitting room. PLI - A young boy. A little confused, but ready to try anything. APL - Feminine. A graceful ballerina. J - A tomboy. LISP? C? JAVA?
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 8:20 PM, emptist <[email protected]> wrote: > > The author doesn't seem to know Chinese well enough to see the real > difference in the example the article gives about tense in English. And > there is real deep difference here between Chinese and English and other > languages I ever heard of. > > > Brian Schott wrote: > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html > > > > The link above (skip the ad if you wish) is an > > incredible article especially considering how J is > > different from other programming languages. > > > > > > -- > > > > (B=) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/NYTimes-article-on-the-effect-of-language-tp29561140s24193p29563278.html > Sent from the J Chat mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
