Re: Language comparison

> Certainly not the kind I would wish to listen to. I have seen far too much
> bigotry in my time.
*points to reply about that*

It was in context - I was trying to [pseudo]*quote* an opinion. Not
listing it as my own, the instant assault notwithstanding.

> Yep - when we speak of Fortran, BASIC, COBOL, Pascal, C, Java etc as
> "languages" we are, as Mach says, using a metaphor.
This is fine. But I was explicitly using them - at most -
metaphorically. I didn't say that there is a one-to-one on that.

However, I think that the idea that there exist "features" of a
language is probably a valid analogy.

(Again - maybe I shouldn't have included the link, since it seems like
my comments were ignored in favor of those expressed there...
"inspired by" does not mean "based on".)

> People even talk about computers 'thinking'. Of course they don't.
I take it that you're not a Strong AI type then. Surely, though, you'd
know that the real arguments in favor of it are not quite so silly as
your "stereos contain musical instruments" example? (E.g.,
functionalist argument, etc.) This is a tangetial discussion, though.

 - Sai