Comment by edent
3 years ago
I think it is interesting comparing computer languages to human languages. Reading Charles Dickens - a bit over 100 years old - is fascinating. Large parts of it are completely intelligible, and then all of a sudden there a phrase or bit of slang which just doesn't make any sense.
Even listening to interviews with pop groups or politicians from the 1960s can produce a weird kind of cognitive dissonance - you know they're speaking the same language as you, but discussing long-dead concepts with outmoded words.
I wonder if computer science will ever have the equivalent of Shakespearean scholars, trying to decipher the meaning or esoteric comments?
>I wonder if computer science will ever have the equivalent of Shakespearean scholars, trying to decipher the meaning or esoteric comments
They are already there. Usually you call them colleagues. :D