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language changes the way you think
“A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.” — A. Perlis
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (aka linguistic relativity hypothesis) asserts lanugage influences how you think, that “different language patterns yield different patterns of thought.” It seems like the Heisenberg uncertainty principal, where measuring a particle also affects it. Dave [...]