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Yes, let's keep making it possible to seamlessly switch languages, make it possible to have software that actually speaks their native language. ASCII had its
by samarthr1 4y ago
Yes, let's keep making it possible to seamlessly switch languages, make it possible to have software that actually speaks their native language.
ASCII had its place, at a time when computers were primarily in the angloshpere. Now, we are at a time when everyone and their dog runs a computer, atleast in the form of their phone, and they all cannot read English, and it is not proper (or profitable) to ask them to do so.
- mikewarot 4y agoMy point was that it wasn't necessary to break compatibility for Python 3.0, it was a political decision to do so. We can agree, I think, that forcing people to use English is bad. How is forcing an un-necessary change on all python programs (and thus their users) not bad?