Xref: utzoo sci.lang:7101 comp.cog-eng:1767 sci.psychology:3207 sci.philosophy.tech:3198 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!thom From: thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie) Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology,sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: Computer Languages and the Sapir/Whorf hypothesis Keywords: computer languages, Sapir/Whorf hypothesis, linguistics, snow, eskimos Message-ID: <38529@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 30 Aug 90 01:28:11 GMT References: <38382@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <3296@skye.ed.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Thom Gillespie) Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley Lines: 12 In article <3296@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) writes: >In article <38382@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Thom Gillespie) writes: > >>Could any of us have scrolled through our mental desktops and double >>clicked an idea before we used the Mac? > >Yes. Could and did. I used to grep for things before the Mac. Usually they fell from my greps before I could cat them --Thom Grepespie