[~ot] why is programming so fun?

[Chris Wright]

Yigal Chripun wrote:
> PS - you should read about the Sapir conjecture in wikipedia to see how
> culture and language influence the way we think.

Sapir-Whorf is not well thought of these days. People invent terms for 
things as necessary, and grammar is generally too primitive to convey 
significant biases. (Which is fine; grammar is supposed to be primitive.)

It's possible that our brains have advanced beyond the capacity of our 
current languages and that they are restricting us somehow, but if so, 
it's almost certainly an issue common to all humans and all languages. 
But given that languages have emerged spontaneously just about every 
time a group of humans got together without an existing language, I'm 
strongly inclined to say that any limitations we experience are due to 
our brains rather than our languages.