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The Semicolon Wars, opininon

The Semicolon Wars


I'm actually a part of the group that thinks that also real life languages have different properties that makes that not everything can be expressed the same way between two languages, that some have an easiness for expressing one idea but trouble for other, and it's not that they were created focusing on expressing something in particular but considering that the needs that people had a long time ago when languages were created are very different from the ones existing now, I think that some languages managed to adapt to a continuously changing world easily than others thanks to how they were built and how their structures work in general.

I know that nowadays, to construct a universal language is impossible, in real life languages and in computer languages, the society and world although unified, has it's pillars built from different material (or in this case, languages), all of which vary in so many ways that it was needed to develop some new languages that existed only to unify two languages so that they could work together or that a language that mixes the best of both base languages; but as we have seen, all of this attempts, were useful and at the same time not useful, we still have programs and systems running on the same old languages that instead of showing that the new languages are better, show a little bit that it's a sort of waste.

I'm not implying that the new languages are bad, cause of course they're good and could easily supply the old languages that are still running for some reason, but that same reason could also explain why there are real life languages that are still alive although they're almost dead, maybe there exists still another system or thing that needs that language or maybe we're just too lazy to rework that system on a more modern language, I don't know but if we just keep making more and more languages without really showing that one is at least enough to cover what a group of languages can do, we will end up with more languages than countries in the world and for me that is just a unnecessary.

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