If you make a small error in transcribing DNA you might get something vastly different.
Only in human language do we have the luxury of dedicating tons of speculative resources to it and saying "you can express it however you want; if it's important enough in the marketplace of ideas then the receiver will develop or evolve a way of interpreting it".
Eh, language is constantly evolving--that's just a historical fact. Yes, with enough small changes over enough time, you'll get something unintelligible--like old English vs modern English, but that's beautiful to me. In fact, I took a course in old English once, and it was a lot of fun. Well, the translations got a little tedious, but studying what changed and what stayed the same was very interesting.
Imagine if executable code followed descriptive frameworks instead of prescriptive ones
All computer code related stuff is extremely not my field. Can you explain more?
If you make a typo in your code it may not run.
If you make a small error in transcribing DNA you might get something vastly different.
Only in human language do we have the luxury of dedicating tons of speculative resources to it and saying "you can express it however you want; if it's important enough in the marketplace of ideas then the receiver will develop or evolve a way of interpreting it".
Eh, language is constantly evolving--that's just a historical fact. Yes, with enough small changes over enough time, you'll get something unintelligible--like old English vs modern English, but that's beautiful to me. In fact, I took a course in old English once, and it was a lot of fun. Well, the translations got a little tedious, but studying what changed and what stayed the same was very interesting.
reminds me of the robustness principle