Here Gregory Anderson talks about why languages are important: "Language is in many ways, a window to the mind.

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Both of us have probably programmed in more than those number of languages, at least programmed that many, since we taught in those languages.

我们俩大概都用过,多于那个数字的语言编过程，自从我们开始教这些语言开始，至少有那么多种吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Where there are many languages in use, language comes to seem arbitrary rather than natural, ; as the product of convention; not as something you're simply born into but something that you learn, something that is made and that can be remade.

世界上有很多种语言在使用中，然而语言的运用却显得任意，而非自然而然的作为传统的产物;,不像是与生俱来的才能，而像后天学会的，像是某些创造再创造的事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Enduring Voices recently travelled to Paraguay, a country with many different languages in addition to the main language,Spanish.

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Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.

这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

David Harrison and Gregory Anderson of Living Tongues say that many endangered languages are spoken by native cultures in close contact with the natural world.

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Well in C and many similar languages, you have to implement that same bracing structure with your keyboard using an open curly brace and a closed curly brace, so a tiny little detail.

在C语言和一些类似的编程语言中,你也必须搭建同样的架构,同样也得注意前大括号啊,后大括号啊等等这些细节问题。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

For example,many native languages in the Russian area of Siberia are threatened.

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