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Discussion on: Is coding a lenguage like english or portuguese?

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Nathan Kallman

Computer languages also come in "families" like human language. Just like Spanish, Italian, and French are all "Romance" languages and have similar grammar, because they all originated from the same Latin root; languages like Java, C#, PHP all read similarly, because they all were majorly inspired by the earlier C language.

And like those romance languages are totally different from oriental languages; those three languages appear totally different from languages like Haskell and Lisp.

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Jana

Thanks! This link between the origin of lenguages helps a lot my understanding of it :)