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0 pointsgrugagag6y ago0 comments

Lets extend this analogy to books: all books are just letters and words writen on a page. And some pictures too. It doesn’t matter how a book is written as long as it produces letters, words and paragraphs and pictures. It doesn’t sound right, does it?

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nradov6y ago· 2 in thread

That's not a fair extension of the analogy. An equivalent analogy would be that you can use any text editor or word processor to write a book.

tartoran6y ago

Only if all programming languages produced the same machine instructions for the same problem.

chii6y ago

A more fair and understandable analogy is to compare it with natural language, which is just made up of simple sounds chained together.

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