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Having something like a global standard, inter-intelligibility between languages etc. is an unmitigated Good Thing, and may it never change. Apparently, my Engl
by interfixus 7y ago
Having something like a global standard, inter-intelligibility between languages etc. is an unmitigated Good Thing, and may it never change.
Apparently, my English-as-a-second-language compatriots Bjarne Stroustrup, Anders Hejlsberg, and Rasmus Lerdorf agree with me.
- zzzcpan 7y agoAnd it's not even about English, but about a subset of ASCII on a QWERTY layout - symbols that are inputtable and explicitly marked on pretty much any keyboard. Whether most keywords in a programming language are in English or not is not even relevant. I mean if all keyboards had Greek symbols on them we would have an article about non-Greek-based programming languages. It's a good thing, I agree. There is no reason to worry either, as uncommon hard to input unicode symbols in the core language is such a huge usability failure, that those languages simply have no chance of gaining any significant mind share.
- planteen 7y agoTotally agree. Using non-Latin characters would be a non- starter for most of the world.