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As for programming languages, I've always wondered how languages would've looked if computers, and as a result programming languages, had been invented in non-e
by Phemist 11y ago
As for programming languages, I've always wondered how languages would've looked if computers, and as a result programming languages, had been invented in non-english speaking countries.
An immediate example that comes to mind is Python's use of None, rather than null (like in Java/JavaScript). I remember speaking in Dutch about Java in college was always slightly awkward, because it was easy to confuse "null" with 0 (or "nul"). I wonder if Guido (being Dutch) called the Python void type "None" on purpose, to avoid awkwardness when speaking about it in Dutch.