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> The thing is, there are no perfect language, just like programming languages.

There has got to be some name for this argument tactic. It's so trite and useless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259764

I am not sure what you did not like about the argument. What is really useless of relating languages to programming languages?

I'm referring to the "nothing is perfect argument". It gets used to muddy the water so that one can imply that it's all a wash. "Nothing is perfect" should be taken as a given on almost all topics, so it's useless except for as a dishonest rhetorical device.

I don't like to compare programming languages and human languages, but for different reasons. (Hint: because they have so little in common.)

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