One Woman’s Journey Back to Language, After an Aneurysm Silenced Her Inner Monologue ⌘ http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/what-my-stroke-taught-me
2017: Indigenous languages are dying, meanwhile the emoji dialects of even two neighboring slacks are becoming mutually incomprehensible
A linguist on Arrival’s alien language ⌘ http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/11/22/a_linguist_on_arrival_s_alien_language.html
A linguist on Arrival’s alien language ⌘ http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/11/22/a_linguist_on_arrival_s_alien_language.html
Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf
Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf
stranded in your escape capsule, you learn the language of the stars and let alien constellations sing you into sleep
Reminder: If your language has a Slack channel, your language is wrong.
Using ancient programming languages for fun and profit.
I have the feeling that writing twtxt clients will become my prefered test case to learn new languages… :)
I have the feeling that writing twtxt clients will become my prefered test case to learn new languages… :)
the word syzygy describes itself and whoever smuggled that into the english language deserves a medal
@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx But be prepared that you terminal is b0rked! In what language are you writing your client?
@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx But be prepared that you terminal is b0rked! In what language are you writing your client?
Wary of humans, the Nameless lurk behind the horizon, swim below the noise floor, evade our probing thoughts clad in fancy garbs of language
Chime triggers move triggers chime, an autocatalytic dance through which run alien melodious thoughts, free from the shackles of language.
similarly, there are ideas that cannot be voiced, not because they’re ineffable, rather they’re ruined the moment you use language for them
He tinkers day and night. One morning, finally free from the shackles of language, he enters ▁▂▃▄▅ ▉░▒▓▉▙⯬⯄⯮✀ ⛊⛊⛊⭆⬮⬮⬮⬯⛟⠙⠳⣄ 𝄾𝄿𝅀𝅁𝅂࿉࿉࿉ ࿉
world words, holographic carriers of meaning from which you can reconstruct the entire book, language, society, universe
He translates from languages that don’t exist. Not just dead but never spoken. Exquisite poems conceived by pulsars, finally accessible.
The reason you use dead languages for magic is that they don’t move. Spells in living languages spoil within years due to semantic drift.
Words, conceived to be spoken only once, lost the moment after.↵Unwords, part of no language.↵Unlanguage, conveying antimeaning.
the symbols that signify the gods form a sacred script and language; they dance to express their will and tell stories
karaoke in dead languages: sing along to the ruin of other races, rendered toothless by time, in sounds your throat can barely produce
That’s also an established term but language is a crowded space… :)
That’s also an established term but language is a crowded space… :)
Languages can be alloyed like metals: Wordsmiths like to add a little French for elegance, or German for philosophic toughness.
Judah Low’s last golem was not the time golem: It was a language golem. The story of the Iron Council.
poeting in a non-native language is hard, I constantly worry that I’ve ruined an awesome line with yet another silly blunder
make a stand against time↵smash language↵kill your ontologies↵inflict epistemic violence
Or is that just where timelines go to die, replaced by a hot loop, and the universe very actively winnows out those knowing such a language?
With those “true language” based magic systems like in Eragon, I wonder: How has nobody ever asked the universe a nonterminating question?
The ontotypical mainstream consisted of people whose minds had taken only grazing hits. Still, language adapted in fascinating ways. Had to.
those who write their novels in a typesafe language so the compiler would find plot holes↵http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/01/excuses-excuses.html#comment-1990861
imagine - no language
Security by profanity: Insult hackers in the language of the country they’re connecting from
Enormous list of Visual Programming Languages: http://t.co/gHUBgRD4ck via HN
I scored 650 points in the Great Language Game! http://t.co/M1EJYZXfoB
New repository: aquilax/programming_dictionary - Common tasks in multiple languages
Nix 0.13 released
Nix\
0.13 has been released. This is mostly a bug fix release,
although it also adds some new language features. See the release\
notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more
LDTA 2008 paper
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper “Maximal\
Laziness — An Efficient Interpretation Technique for Purely\
Functional DSLs” at 8th\
Workshop on Language\
Description, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2008). It’s about
caching of evaluation results in the Nix expression evaluator as
a technique to make a simple term-rewriting evaluator efficient.
Slides are [here](h … ⌘ Read more
Nix 0.11 released
Nix\
0.11 has been released. This is a major new release
representing over a year of development. The most important
improvement is secure multi-user support. It also features many
usability enhancements and language extensions, many of them
prompted by NixOS, the purely functional Linux distribution
based on Nix. See the [release\
notes](https://web.archive.org/web/20140913055323/https://releases.nixos.org … ⌘ Read more
Learning Languages: http://tinyurl.com/3c2a4v