alt Hacker NewsAs a language matures, it moves away from concrete things towards abstract things. Eg cave paintings -> pictorial scripts -> modern languages which are very detached from pictorial/phonetic meaning (even modern chinese). These days we have programming languages which do not have any phonetic or pictorial representation. And this trend will keep going on. I think I still stand by my point that this script isn't as refined as a modern language. Just like the great pyramids aren't as refined as burj khalifa.
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I dont think this chnages anything. The writing was less convenient than modern alphabets but still capable of expressing all things necessary.
The closest analogy might be: modern alebraic notation is compact and clean but this doesnt mean algebra didnt exist much, much earlier.
To make this claim, wouldn't you need to understand the meaning of the script? It's probably not about monads, but you don't know for sure.
> Just like the great pyramids aren't as refined as burj khalifa.
I'd wager the Great Pyramids will still be around in 1000 years and the Burj Khalifa will not, if anyone wants to take bets.