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by vonklaus 3403 days ago
PG was talking about viaweb and dead languages in an interview I won't spend 10mins looking for; but he said something like:

Latin is a dead language and no one speaks it. Sure it is helpful for understanding other languages, but I never got that comparison because the computer always speaks it.

Certainly imperfect paraphrase, but the crux is that you can always code python, or lisp ect.