• Mad_Punda@feddit.org
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    8 months ago

    I suspect there’s more people who speak Python fluently than Esperanto. So that comparison sits very wrong with me. The rest was funny :)

    • Esperanto always struck me as more perl-like with each part of speech having its own suffix like perl has $ for scalars, @ for arrays, and % for hashes. Though perl is probably more like a bunch of pidgins…

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        Yeah, I was about to say.

        Perl 5 is like Esperanto: borrowed neat features from many languages, somehow kinda vaguely making a bit of sense. Enjoyed some popularity back in the day but is kind of niche nowadays.

        PHP is like Volapük: same deal, but without the linguistic competence and failing miserably at being consistent.

        Raku (Perl 6) is like Esperanto reformation efforts: Noble and interesting scholarly pursuits, with dozens of fans around the multiverse.

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      Esperanto’s equivalent would probably be Haskell.

      Python is probably more like Spanish. Very easy basics, but then people from different regions of where it’s has spread out barely understand each other

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    Rust is more like Esperanto isn’t it? It’s Latin, but regularized and with the rough edges sanded off.

    Python is more like Spanish. A billion speakers in the world, and really easy to pick up a few phrases, but a small European minority still think they run it.

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      If you think Rust has zero rough edges you might have drunk too much kool aid.

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      Esperanto is just Spanish pretending to be a neutral language.

      Honestly a very bad language. Nothing intuitive or easy about it. It’s as well thought out as QWERTY.

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    basic is like toki pona then i guess, like python but even easeier

    no wait, that ones gray snail (minimalist vocabulary: it has only 4 commands)

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    Literally all of these languages are rooted in English.

    C: printf()

    C++: cout

    JavaScript: document.write() or window.print()

    Java: system.out.println()

    Python: print()

    Rust: print()

    Exactly zero of those reference a language other than English. I’m not even a linguist and this is just silly. It’s literally part of why English is becoming the dominant world language, because if you learn computer programming you basically have to learn English.

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    I guess assembler is sumerien then, only still written and understood? And cobol or fortran? Linear a and b?

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    I want to disagree on German. It isn’t verbose. We’ve got several words where there isn’t an equivalent in pretty much any other languages. Including Schadenfreude und Torschlusspanik (the feeling that you are getting older l, can’t find a partner and will die alone).

    The same EU legal text has in German 22.118 words Vs English 24.698.

    The making me cry part, that’s fair. Overcomplicated, could be worse.

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      I think word count is not the best metric precisely because of what you mention. “Krankenversicherungskarte” is one word vs the three word “health insurance card”, but they convey the same information in roughly the same amount of characters.

      Overall I don’t find German particularly verbose, only sometimes a small phrase is condensed into a single word.

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        I don’t know german but it seems to be more logical to have one word for “health insurance card” since it describes one class of objects. Better than spelling 3 nouns where one partially describes what object is and other nouns act like clarification

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      I wonder what the best programming analogue is for combining words into one where other languages keep them separate; maybe the functional-style chains of adapters?

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      The same EU legal text has in German 22.118 words Vs English 24.698.

      That needs a character count really. Words isn’t a particularly relevant measure when the language uses compound words

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    Perl is… forgotten entirely, despite its efforts in getting us from there to here.

    Yup, checks out.

    PHP also, but good riddance:-D.

    Shell scripting is the ink that makes up these words - without them, you would never have seen this image.

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      I think Perl is closer to Esperanto - the vast majority of people will never want to learn it and the people that know it won’t stfu about how everyone should use it! And they could all use a shower!

      (I kid… Mostly)

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        You… you shut up! Excuse me, I have to go take a shower:-) (/s)

        Anyway you’re right (no /s) - at one point it filled in a gap between the likes of C++ and Assembly on the one hand and shell scripting (bash, awk, grep, sed, each with its own syntax and very little of that shared in common with one another) and I guess Fortran on the other. I still prefer it enormously to everything else - it’s quirky but fun:-) - though I get why a less experienced person should choose Python and stick with it, even as we all wish that there was another alternative that would work better than either.

        And since I can’t resist: Perl is 8-20x faster than Python, and major websites like DuckDuckGo and booking.com use it. Sigh…I guess it’s time for that shower now:-).

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    This is highly inaccurate:

    D: Esperanto. Highly derivative of C (Latin), designed by people previously writing compilers. It’s not being taken seriously as such.

    Russian is nowadays being speaken by right-wing authoritarians instead, and any programmer that is auth-right is either coding in C/C++, or a Javascript/Python dev pretending to be a C/C++ dev to “gatekeep” nulangs (sic).

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    oddly enough those also correspond approximately to how well I (native German speaker) know each of these languages; but why is there a stereotype that us Python devs and Esperantists need to shower more? :(