[lojban] REF: Haskell and Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (NON URGENT)

[David KOCH <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Hello world, I'm still keeping an eye on the group. Considering that I'm a  
'nerd' (or 'geek'), that I often visit some nerdo geeking websites, I  
found an interesting article quite recently :

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=15230

It speaks about functional programming VS imperative programing (do this,  
done that, step there...). It leads to a more indeep article hosted by IBM  
:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cb07186.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07Haskell

One sentence especialy has struck my retina : "Imperative programming  
definitely shapes your thinking. But learning the alternative tools in  
functional languages can expand the way you look at a problem." Isn't just  
what's Lojban is supposed to prove, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis  
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir–Whorf_hypothesis ) ? So perhaps it  
would be more 'accurate' to check the hypothesis on coder's abilities to  
solve a problem using different languages, as there is certainly more  
coders around the world than lojbanists.

On another site, here's another way to deals with 'speaking to a computer'  
:

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/NaturalLanguageProcessing.asp

Finally, what's quite fun is considering that Haskell have a spinoff  
language named Concurrent Clean, which was used to code Lojban Scrabble :

http://www.double.co.nz/lojban/

And also that IBM, who hosts the article on Kaskell also hosts an article  
on Lojban :

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/2740.html

This article is written by a famous lojbanist,  Jérôme Desquilbet :

http://jerome.desquilbet.org/pages/246/  
( http://jerome.desquilbet.org/pages/8/ )

The universe loops on itself !

--
KOCH David aka Kochise



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