How do you say "I'm very lonely" in C++?
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jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 8 months agoEsperanto is designed, and so is C++.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 8 months ago
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
throw NullPointerException;swayevenly@lemm.ee 8 months ago
They’re lonely on purpose?
Hyperreality@kbin.social 8 months ago
Are you sure?
I thought the correct answer was to make a Skyrim mod which requires Visual C++ redistributables.
qaz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
C++ is perhaps a great example of a language that has evolved over time without people putting a lot thought in it.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 8 months ago
ccunning@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Got ‘em!
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I thought this was a discussion about languages people speak.
Esperanto is an interesting case though but it wasn’t designed to be as simple as a language can be (since that is highly subjective). It was designed to have as many similarities as possible to major European language in order to make it easier for speakers of those European languages to learn.
amio@kbin.social 8 months ago
Maybe not literally the simplest possible, but simplicity was certainly an important guiding principle. The idea was just to not make it too taxing to learn, since natural languages have a lot of arbitrary complexity in them.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Not really. Your description fits Interlingua a lot better than Esperanto.
For example the word for “legalize” looks like legaliz- in lots of European languages, but in Esperanto it’s “laŭleĝigi” (laŭ = according to, leĝ = law, ig = cause to be, i = verb infinitive). There are many more examples like that, even the Internet is called Interreto in Esperanto.