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by duckingtest 4243 days ago
A programming language is not a natural language. The quote refers to Hoon specifically.
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The programming languages you're familiar with don't consider themselves to be similar to natural languages. This one apparently does, and why not? Why do we even use the word "language" to refer to our computer UIs when we balk at mundane language phenomena like context-sensitivity?