http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2005/03/07/2966 David Intersimone (David I) CodeGear blog about programming, languages, history, and more. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:47:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2005/03/07/2966#comment-17 Bruce Butters Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:04:57 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2005/03/07/2966#comment-17 Language is for communicating ideas. Programming is for operating machinery, and until the day machines have consciousness, and can spontaneously communicate the fruits of that consciousness, programming will remain simply a set of instructions, virtual gears, no more an instance of communication than when you turn the steering wheel of your car and it goes in a different direction. Language is for communicating ideas. Programming is for operating machinery, and until the day machines have consciousness, and can spontaneously communicate the fruits of that consciousness, programming will remain simply a set of instructions, virtual gears, no more an instance of communication than when you turn the steering wheel of your car and it goes in a different direction.

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]]> http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2005/03/07/2966#comment-657 Steve Moran Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:09:34 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2005/03/07/2966#comment-657 As a humorous aside, I've often wondered what a conversation between two people who only shared a common programming language, and not a real language, might sound like... "Gosub vodka?" "True." As a humorous aside, I’ve often wondered what a conversation between two people who only shared a common programming language, and not a real language, might sound like… "Gosub vodka?" "True."

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