A few bits of pseudo-code.
Sometimes I pause and ponder how many different ways there are to write programs. They really are different languages. There’s the c-like languages:
if( this.understood ) {
you.celebrate();
} else {
you.learn( cLikeLanguages );
}and the *nix tools
echo ’abc dbe’ | tr ’ecadb’ ’bdgjo’ | sed ’s/o/oo/’and the lisp dialects
(define learn
(lambda (n)
(letrec ((inner
(lambda (known needed)
(if (> known needed)
"done"
(inner (+ known 1)
needed)))))
(inner 0 n))))not to mention the more esoteric choices like prolog and coq
What is it about humans that drives us to uniqueness? The languages can all express the same things; why have so many ways to say things?
Even more curiously, why do I feel an urge to learn them all?
Looking for comments…