If the designers of Go and Rust had read the work of Sapir and Whorf, they would have realised that to accomplish real change in programming requires greater change in the language used.
Category Archive: Language
I am currently planning the following major articles and series for the coming three months: Macs and Technology […]
Not this year, but in the future we have resolved to holiday in Georgia – the country, not […]
Words have recently caused many casualties. Whether they were in emails exchanged with the Murdochs and read to […]
A panorama is an image, usually broad in its extent, of landscape, and has seen extensive figurative application. What is remarkable is that it did not exist until 1789, and still thrives today.
English words do not inflect much; in fact you could claim that English is almost a non-inflectious language. […]
Every so often, I see some English which strikes me as being odd or unusual. This time it […]
Sometimes chasing the origin and meanings of an apparently simple English word gives us a glimpse of a […]
Standards like Unicode can be cumbersome when you are working in a remote place trying to build a tribal dictionary. SIL’s Graphite addresses that need.
There is something satisfyingly recursive about studying the contents of the first writing tablets on the latest of Apple’s tablets.
The Eclectic Light Company 