A couple of really interesting consequences of that, by the way, one of them is, it says, anything you can do in one programming language you can do in another programming language.

一些真正有趣的后果是，顺便说一句，其中之一是，它说你在一种编程语言中,能做的事情,在另一种语言中也能做。

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Anything you can do with one, you can do with another it's based on that fundamental result.

你用一种语言做的事情，也可以用另一种做,这是基于那个基本结果之上的。

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So, part of what goes on when you learn, is you have to learn the language --the phonemes that your language has.

因此你在学习语言时要做的一件事情便是,你必须学习你所学语言的各种音位

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To do that, we need to describe: not only, what are the primitives, but how do we capture things legally in that language, and interact with the computer?

为了达到这个目的，我们需要描述：,包括程序基本的东西，以及怎么在这种语言中，做我们想做的事情并和计算机交互？

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And there is no programming language that is better well actually, that's not quite true, there are some better at doing certain kinds of things but there's nothing that you can do in C that you can't do in Fortran.

没有一种编程语言是更优秀的,当然实际上，这并不是完全对的，在做某些事儿时一些语言会更好用,但是没有事情是你能在C语言中做,而不能在Fortran中做的。

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