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::See https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF (page 3) Should we remove COBOL FORTRAN and BASIC from RC on Dijkstra's recommendation?--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] ([[User talk:Nigel Galloway|talk]]) 14:13, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
:: We could justifiably argue that there are really only 3 different computer languages here – C, Lisp and C/Lisp creole (or perhaps just one ? let's call it Turing/Church). Consolidation would have no value but it would have a cost. A language is a dialect with an Army and Navy (see under Max Weinreich), and a Rosetta label is a dialect with a community. War is cheap, peace is difficult. Always choose the latter if you can – Anschluss never leads anywhere good. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 14:28, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
:::Yes, reductionism is its own punishment.
:::I did put header markup around the sub-parts earlier today but you are correct, Gerard, things do get complicated the further one goes down the path of grouping according to language family. I can imagine some folk might not appreciate me grouping Scheme under LISP, for example.
:::So I shall split the parts back out and resist the urge to group that way again. And yes, Hout, the tbas army (well fireteam really as there's only four of us (that we know of)) doesn't really have that much interest in the other dialects and languages. We want to see ''our'' code up in lights in our own private section rather than share the glow with the hoi polloi [[User:Axtens|Axtens]] ([[User talk:Axtens|talk]]) 06:49, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
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