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From: jss@brunix.UUCP (Judith Schrier)
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Subject: Re: sexist language/bad attitudes
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 21:38:51 EST
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OK, we are all computer-oriented people, to some extent, or what are we
doing here? Permit me to quote a couple of well-known computer scientists:

"We must recognize the strong and undeniable influence that our language
exerts on our way of thinking, and in fact defines and delimits the
abstract space in which we can formulate -- give form to -- our thoughts."
	N. Wirth, 1974

"Language is the vehicle by which we express our thoughts, and the
relation between those thoughts and our language is a subtle and
involuted one. The nature of language actually shapes and models the
way we think.
	W. A. Wulf, 1977

Both quoted in Ghezzi and Jazayeri's "Programming Language Concepts",
1982, Wiley, p. 13.

judith
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