<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 8:54 PM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Forgive me, but can you spell that out a bit? How does working in a<br>
particular programming Language shape an approach to the problem. <br></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font color="#0b5394"><br></font></div></div></blockquote><font color="#000000">As an example of FRIAM thread spelunking, here's a 2005 entry from the late great Mike Agar on programming languages and the Whorfian Hypothesis - </font>a principle claiming that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language.<font color="#000000"> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity">Wikipedia</a>):</font><br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font color="#0b5394"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">Ray's topic suggestions are good ones. Steve and I talked some about</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">another angle, applying the Sapir-<span class="gmail-bold gmail-highlight gmail-search-highlight" style="font-weight:bold;background:rgb(255,255,153)">Whorf</span> hypothesis from ling anthro (that</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">language and habitual patterns of thought co-evolve) to "speakers" of</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">different computer languages and seeing how that plays out in project</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">teams.</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font color="#0b5394"><br style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">I don't know this territory as well as I should, given my new life as a</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">planet in the FRIAM orbit, but from colleagues' stories way back when</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">I'm pretty sure the human/machine interface emphasis came out of the</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">pioneering use of ethnographers at Xerox PARC together with the infuence</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">of Latour's theories that technology must also be viewed as an actor in</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">a situation. John Seely Brown, the PARC-man who made this happen, tells</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">some of the stories in his book the Social Life of Information,</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">co-authored with Paul Duguid.</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font color="#0b5394"><br style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394">Mike<br><br></font></span><a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ethnography-and-information-systems-td519925.html">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ethnography-and-information-systems-td519925.html</a> <span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.44px"><font color="#0b5394"><br></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div></div></div>