David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoThe Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteriamedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down10
arrow-up139arrow-down1external-linkThe Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteriamedium.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-square200fifty@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-24 months ago Language designers are obligated to be linguists as well. This is why I love Perl. Larry Wall has a linguistics background and created the only programming language where you can conjugate variables. (I know it sounds like I’m making fun of perl here, and I am, but I also legitimately do love perl)
This is why I love Perl. Larry Wall has a linguistics background and created the only programming language where you can conjugate variables.
(I know it sounds like I’m making fun of perl here, and I am, but I also legitimately do love perl)