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Re: Ancient Philosophy And Programming Languages

by weierophinney (Pilgrim)
on May 01, 2004 at 18:44 UTC ( [id://349660]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Ancient Philosophy And Programming Languages

And what do we make of the fact that a language such as Perl is written in C...? That would suggest that a pure Platonic language cannot exist without an Arisotelian world to build from.

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Re: Re: Ancient Philosophy And Programming Languages
by cyocum (Curate) on May 02, 2004 at 10:02 UTC

    I would reply like this and I may be wrong on this point. As long as the language is completely self-hosting, this should not be a problem. The language would be able to compile itself and avoid the whole problem. Now Perl may be a Platonic language run by an Arisotelian world because of its reliance on C.

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