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"The world isn't all English" But the history of computing largely is (not totally of course, but largely). If we were discussing sushi, or katanas, or bushid
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
"The world isn't all English"
But the history of computing largely is (not totally of course, but largely).
If we were discussing sushi, or katanas, or bushido, or netsuke, would you complain about the language being "Japanese-centric"?
If we were discussing grand opera (or, for that matter, having a technical discussion of almost any kind of music), would you complain about the language being "Italian-centric"?
- kazinator 9y ago> would you complain I'm not complaining that programming languages use words based on English; my point is about English speakers having bikeshedding quibbles about those words that don't mean anything to non-English-speakers. Suppose some Italian, due to some Italian reasons, doesn't like something about the music term dal segno or any other term. Why would I care, know what I mean.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoHmm... if you didn't care, why would you be reading the Italian quibble on a history site written in Italian? I mean, this was quite clearly a page about the history of the terms, right?
- macintux 9y agoYou're turning a note about a happy coincidence into something very personal. Why?
- kbenson 9y ago> ... would you complain about the language being .. I'm not sure there was a complaint there. To me, it read more like an interesting side note.