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"I’m not sure [the sapir-whorf] hypothesis applies to programming languages"

Is that really true? Having moved from OO programming to distributed functional programming, I definitely think that my worldview is different; I'm constantly thinking about how to deal with systems unreliabilty and message passing latency, which is not where the bulk of my time was spent thinking when I was writing for non-concurrent systems with shared memory





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