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  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • Would be nice to include boycat vpn

  • Do languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?

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  • A lot of excellent observations.

    But you did answer your question when you mentioned most older scripts were illiterate (in the academic sense).

    Illiterate scripts inherently carry a lot of information whose priority is to convey the message independent of the listener (I'm guessing)

    I think languages that can convey tone are awesome. It makes the language richer and less ambiguous

  • What's Functional Programming All About?

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  • In 2025, just try and see.

    I am pretty sure like algol like languages FP isn't a monolith it is a broad stroke combination of the following things

    • functions, types and values are often on the same plane (like Lean, Coq, etc) or types and (functions + values) have a clear separation but one can create multiple hierarchies in those 2 levels (OCaml, Haskell, etc)
    • they often use immutable data structures or explicitly state if it is mutable
    • every line is a program is an expression, when it is a statement it still returns some signal (usually unit)
    • lispy langs or other gradually typed languages are not statically type checked and ML like langs are statically type checked

    Also all these features are ime just how I want to do programming. It is merely a subjective thing which I find comfortable to program in.

  • Do languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?

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  • Hindi or any Indic languages (popular ones) have any case differentiation.

    Mostly because emphasis on any word is not literal it is tonal.

    So there are these things called - matra (12 matras in hindi)

    They are symbols representing inflection/emphasis etc. and we can combine them with each character of the alphabet and convey tone.