In the simplest of terms, code is not language and language is not code even though informally sometimes code is incorrectly called “computer language”. Neither the computer nor any linked community of computers such as the internet speaks a language; humans represent language information in their use of computers through code they invent and create […]
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We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using […]