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A long, long time ago I riffed a little bit on the question of “why do we have VB and C#?” The idea I was trying to struggle towards was that even though two languages may share many similar constructs and be able to express roughly the same thing, design decisions on little things can make a big difference in the experience of using the language. Now I learn from Dave Remy that this is hardly a new idea and even has a name: the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. There’s even a discussion about how it might or might not apply to programming languages. Well, you learn something new every day…

(And, yes, I am a geek. When I first saw the phrase “the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis,” my first thought was, “what does this have to do with Star Trek?”)