Language as the Ultimate Weapon

Why is the Nineteen Eighty-Four novel by George Orwell relevant to a student taking the Programming Language course?

In this last entry of the coruse I will give my opinion about the Nineteen Eighty-four novel and the article titled “Language as the ‘Ultimate Weapon’ in Nineteen Eighty-Four". 

 “Different languages impose different conceptions of reality” I think that this phrase is very powerful and it is true, quotidian languages like English or Spanish or Japanese have their own culture behind them and when you understand them you start to have a different perception of life and thinking.
 The same happens with the developers, we need to learn more and more programming languages and each programming language has their own rules and sometimes a very different syntaxis that give us different ways of thinking when we are solving problems, this is very important because we do not think the same when we develop in Python, C, C#, Clojure or Java.

It is like a new world when you began to develop in a different programming language because you need to learn special rules for each programming language and I think that this is the biggest relation that I found with the Nineteen Eighty-four novel, this is because, in the novel, the politicians suppress people’s thinking and eliminate their freedom by using many methods, like destroying or changing history books, washing people's brains with torture or fake news, etc.

So if you analyze with this point of view, when you start learning a new programming language, this process need to changes your way of thinking most of the time and also,when updates appear in a programming language it changes in a very notorious way and we need to start learning the new history in order to develop scripts that are correct, and if we want a proper functioning or our scripts that are in the older version, we need to change our methods with the new ones, so we change our way of thinking and solving problems as developers, so this is the relationship that I have found with the book and programming languages.






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