Ngoma-dance
Technical Language: The word Ngoma is directly translated into the word drum and the term Ngoma-dance refers to traditional dancing, drumming, and singing in Africa.
Ngoma-dance
Technical Language: The word Ngoma is directly translated into the word drum and the term Ngoma-dance refers to traditional dancing, drumming, and singing in Africa.
assegais
Technical Language: Assegais is a spear used in southern Africa by the Bantu speaking people. This is part of technical language because it represents part of a specific culture and history.
how important is the concrete syntax of their language in contrast to
how important is the concrete syntax of their language in contrast to the abstract concepts behind them what I mean they say can someone somewhat awkward concrete syntax be an obstacle when it comes to the acceptance
The LISP part, though, is not going well. Porting clever 1970s Stanford AI Lab macros written on the original SAIL machine to modern Common LISP is hard. Anybody with a knowledge of MACLISP want to help?
an acknowledgement of network effects: LP is unlikely to ever catch on enough to be the majority, so there needs to be a way for a random programmer using their preferred IDE/editor to edit a "literate" program
This is part of the reason why I advocate for language skins for comparatively esoteric languages like Ada.
Silas, J., Jones, A., Weiss-Cohen, L., & Ayton, P. (2021, March 9). The seductive allure of technical language and the effect on covid-19 vaccine intentions. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4kb6v
there's no reasonable way to communicate effectively with the less technically minded without acquiescing to the nontechnical misuse of the term "hacker"