Re: Abducktion

Posted by Frank Wimberly-2 on Aug 07, 2020; 6:54pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-Abducktion-tp7582900p7598187.html

In Spanish if you drop your cup you say, "See me cayó la taza".  A literal word--for-word  translation is "The cup fell itself on me".  Some people say this is an effort to avoid responsibility.

Frank

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020, 9:01 AM Barry MacKichan <[hidden email]> wrote:

Very much so. We hired a grad student a long time ago (he stayed with us until he retired). He wrote great Pascal programs. He wrote great Pascal programs in C++, and in JavaScript. The effect of your first programming language on style, idioms, and your feelings about recursion and encapsulation.

—Barry

On 6 Aug 2020, at 23:24, [hidden email] wrote:

Nah.  He means more than that.  Even ordinary languages predispose users to one kind of discourse or another.  I assume that programming languages do the same. 

 

N

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