On 1/4/08, douglas edric stanley <destanley_at_mac.com> wrote:
> > > Haskell is still pretty unreadable, therefore a
> >> bit of a kludge. But at least it looks unreadable
> >> from the get-go and doesn't pretend otherwise.
> >
> >Korean is pretty unreadable to me. And Thai.
>
> Yawn. Suggesting that I'm just arguing from the position of
> ignorance? Nice one. I figured someone would try that. But I stand by
> it nevertheless. My argument was a little more subtle than that,
> thankyouverymuch.
Mine too, different example then: legal documents are pretty
unreadable to me even when written in a dialect of my mother tongue. I
might eventually understand them, but my brain hurts if I try.
The reason legalese is different from literary language is that it
wants to fullfill a different set of requirements - it has to
communicate in the least subjective and ambiguous manner. Doesn't mean
you can't use it to tell stories.
The same with code - its language is different from natural languages
because of different goal - but it is steal a means of communication
and hence can be hijacked by artists to tell stories or create
pictures in one's head.
--
cheers,
artm
http://lab.v2.nl/
Received on Fri Jan 04 2008 - 09:09:13 GMT