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by dilawar 1949 days ago
is there a list of acomputer languagesn(dead or alive) and spoken languages (dead or alive)? Would like to see at what time computer languages are likely to outnumber spoken language.
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The highest estimate for number of natural languages I've seen is about 7,000 living. But I think you'd have to have a very, very restrictive definition of programming language for it to be lower than that.
Definitely depends on the definition, it seems every programmer and their mother has some toy programming language they poke at.
Most of which would probably more qualify as dialects in natural language terms. We're all mostly speaking broken Algol with some fancy loan words and maybe a slight lisp.
Unsurprisingly, Wikipedia has both.