Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:14:18 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beginning C++ in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040424131418.GA1318@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040421110548.20d8e75c.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> References: <200404202124.50967.dgw@liwest.at> <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABCEAICKAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net> <20040421110548.20d8e75c.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
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On 2004-04-21 11:05, Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> wrote: >On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:28:48 -0600 >Dan MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >>>>> From: Daniela >>>>> Sent: April 17, 2004 04:50 >>>>> >>>>> OO languages can be optimized differently than non-OO languages, >>>>> and when you translate one language into another, this advantage >>>>> gets lost. >>>> >>>> I challenge you to defend this claim with a specific example. >>> >>> I don't really have a specific example, but it's quite the same with >>> human languages. The more often a text is translated, the more >>> useless information >>> gets added to it. And if the original text is beautifully written, >>> it is often total crap when you translate it back. >> >> These are not analagous. The reason things get lost in the >> translation of human language is that it is not possible to represent >> every expression in one human language with complete precision in >> another. > > I challenge you to defend this (Sapir-Worfian) claim with a specific > example. :) A single Greek word for which there isn't an equivalent word in English -- and I mean exact equivalent, including all the possible meanings and nuances that this word can express in the Greek language -- should be enough as an example, right? This isn't an "expression", it is a single word, but there's no reason why a single word cannot be considered an expression either :) - Giorgos
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