On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:41:57AM -0400, Deepak Jain exclaimed:
I am sure numerically, Chinese speakers are pretty comparable to English speakers, but the trend (technologically) does favor English IMO. I have never seen a C compiler that used Chinese or French syntax, though you could always make them do I/O in whatever language you want. Microsoft has Windows speaking a number of languages too. Until compilers are written in a non-English syntax and popularized, I suspect computer/data support for English will always be a bit better (and therefore easier to use) than non-English.
thank you. This was what I was driving at in my original post, but I managed to neglect to include the specifics of that particular point.
Yes, it is incidental that it is English, but I, for one, am glad I don't need to do "ecrivez" lines in C with an accent over the e from my keyboard everytime I need to dump debugging output to a screen.
[Yes, I am trivializing an issue some feel very strongly about...]
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