If Philosophers Were Programmers
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If Philosophers Were Programmers
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#2> Java was the first strongly-typed language
Is that supposed to be a joke? Java isn't remotely close to being the first strongly-typed or even the first statically-typed language.
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#3I always that thought that the only language that made logical sense for philosophers to use was prolog.
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#4> Java was the first strongly-typed language Is that supposed to be a joke? Java isn't remotely close to being the first strongly-typed or even the first statically-typed language.
Do you know which one is?
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#5> Java was the first strongly-typed language Is that supposed to be a joke? Java isn't remotely close to being the first strongly-typed or even the first statically-typed language.
I was confused about that as well
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#6Fun fact: John MacFarlane, the developer of Haskell's fantastic PanDoc package is a professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley!
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#7I always that thought that the only language that made logical sense for philosophers to use was prolog.
I was expecting someone saying lisp instead of prolog.
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#9I always that thought that the only language that made logical sense for philosophers to use was prolog.
I was expecting someone saying lisp instead of prolog.
Lisp and prolog are old languages that have had their day and largely been marginalized by more practical ones. Prolog was intended for AI and NLP but overtime the rigid grammar approaches have been obsoleted by statistical ones with far greater success. These days AI and NLP are more commonly found in java or python. Watson, for example, is written in java. Lisp is great for things like genetic algorithms because there's no distinction between code and data, it's a homoiconic language.