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		blub on Feb 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A half-hour to learn Rust I've seen that some programming communities focus on writing software, while others focus on talking about software. C and Haskell are two good examples of this dynamic, although C is used in so many different projects that "community" only loosely applies.

isoprophlex on Feb 29, 2020 [–]

Interesting, maybe the Sapir Whorf hypothesis is much more relevant for programming languages than for natural languages; maybe the language shapes the things a human can comfortably express, and this shapes the communities

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

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