Alvaro Videla
Sep 3, 2018 · 1 min read

Thanks for your comment.

About this: “and then wonder if you might review your thesis that languages are “tools”. Since if you watch Programming Language Conferences too you will see that its all about community”

I have spoken at several tech conferences, not only programming languages ones, and yes, I know it’s about community, but I have a feeling you misunderstood me.

If you look at my previous article about Generative Metaphor, when I say that “languages are tools”, I’m not saying that they are just that, but that for certain problems, it is better to look at them as tools. For other problems, it’s completely fine to look at them as languages, and yet for other problems, it’s even better to look at them as communities, as you say.

Regarding these last three ideas (tools, languages, communities), I think it would be interesting to write an article to explore how Assemblage theory from Deleuze and Guattari via Manuel de Landa applies to programming languages.

    Alvaro Videla

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