Why so many languages? (Replay)

Cover of the book "What you can't talk about, you have to write it down", by Gilles Dowek. © Éditions Le Pommier

By: Caroline Lachowsky

To write music, algebra or computer science, but also our postal addresses or an ophthalmological prescription, we invented languages. What differences between languages ​​and languages?

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What do these languages ​​say about us, our humanity and its evolution? Why " what you can't talk about you have to write it down "? This is the title of the last essay by our guest, Gilles Dowek, a prominent computer scientist and great impediment to thinking in circles, which takes us far beyond his discipline around the question why so many languages?

With:

  • Gilles Dowek , Professor of Computer Science at the École Polytechnique and researcher at the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA). He is the author of " What you can't talk about, you have to write it ", published by Le Pommier.

(April 9, 2019 replay)

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