The
key factor that separates us from animals, we are symbolic animals,
every entity of this space has its name by our own perception, we
understand our surrounding by our own collective interpretation and
definition from that same interpretation. Everything has a defined
name that encapsulates the whole idea, limiting that entity presence
in the created context. Language has given us the ability to express
and communicate to other human beings, the ambiguous interpretations
of the universe from the first civilizations were the main structure
for the evolution of our cosmovision,
with that language has been the syntax of our perception. The
definition of objects and things we manage to comprehend, has a
limitation, the same name and definition of that specific object
limits its space, leaving that object being unnoticed and with less
importance. If we remove language, how the interpretations of our
existence and the universe could be? If we thing about language,
we can see that is a mere abstraction, it has only meaning for a
human being of course depending on the context, because with a great
variety of languages comes different interpretations. Take this blog
entry for example, it is written on English, the idea that is
displayed by this words is limited by the English language, on other
languages this entry could have a different interpretation and
explanation, it could be more accurate or not. The expansion of the
languages is possible, but its own definition limits the mind, for
uncertainty, language is a limitation.
George
Orwell teaches us about the power of language, it could determine a
certain context, blinding everyone from reality, but what is reality,
we create reality by our own collective agreement, of course it is
defined by a language, many realities exist, always pointing to a
given context.
Concerning
to programming
languages course, there is an important observation that relates to
Orwell's New Speech, talking about environment makes sense
in a society context and in a computer system context, language
defines the environment, defines the structures, the procedure to
resolve a conflict, to manage ideas. If the language has the
structure to name everything in our surrounding like the Linnaean
taxonomy, the language's scope is vast. Clojure presented a new style
and form in programming, which encourage me to think about compilers,
the whole schema behind a
compiler, the symbol table,
the lexical analyzer,
the parser, etc; is the box that limits the language. The creation of
languages
alter the scope of solutions.
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http://34.212.143.74/s201911/tc2006/language_ultimate_weapon.html
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