Haskell may not be a language in the same way that French, Swahili, or Quechua are languages, but language both spoken and coded regardless have much in common. However, traditional languages are much better adapted for speech than they are to writing; after all, we humans have been speaking for far longer than we have been writing. Language has been shaped enormously by what is and is not easy to convey with the sounds our mouths make, and text is at best a very lossy technique for recording those sounds, even if the content conveyed by tone, cadence, and emotion is largely lost.
Spoken Programming Languages?
Spoken Programming Languages?
Spoken Programming Languages?
Haskell may not be a language in the same way that French, Swahili, or Quechua are languages, but language both spoken and coded regardless have much in common. However, traditional languages are much better adapted for speech than they are to writing; after all, we humans have been speaking for far longer than we have been writing. Language has been shaped enormously by what is and is not easy to convey with the sounds our mouths make, and text is at best a very lossy technique for recording those sounds, even if the content conveyed by tone, cadence, and emotion is largely lost.