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If computer scientists made similar emotional arguments: Save EBCDIC because diversity. No. Full stop. It's the adherents' of these cultures (speakers' of thes
by Kenji 10y ago
If computer scientists made similar emotional arguments: Save EBCDIC because diversity.
No. Full stop. It's the adherents' of these cultures (speakers' of these languages) duty to compile and/or translate their cultural insights and knowledge. If they fail to do that - good bye, it probably wasn't that important, otherwise the culture or language would have been dominant.
- Chris2048 10y agoNo, it's not the same. The natural languages that "won" did so because of colonisation, not meritocracy - or should computer scientists compete by oppressing their competitors?
- zephyrfalcon 10y agoYou have a point, although technologies don't necessarily win because of merit either. In fact, they often don't...
- Chris2048 10y agoThat's the MS way! ;-D
- enugu 10y agoThe point is that the existing speakers would like to preserve the language, but might not have resources for doing so. One good thing is that technology allows us right now to do archiving in an easier way. Recording speech, stories, and songs can be done more conveniently. Learning resources can be created in a better way. Problem is that the tools for all this might not be accessible to people living in remote areas if they do wish to preserve their language.
- derriz 10y agoMaybe we should all program C on Windows - and only teach it - because any alternative that is not "dominant" has no value or importance?
- PeCaN 10y agoFor the record, every IBM iSeries uses EBCDIC and those aren't going away any time soon (actually, the OS on those is very advanced and amazing, minus the EBCDIC part). Also, discarding intellectual curiosity for strict utilitarianism is awfully short-sighted.
- drauh 10y agoOK, from now on, you can only code in Fortran 77.