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Nice idea, but please give it a name that makes the language easy to discuss and search for. There's no way I'm going to work on Monday and discussing: 'did yo
by trailfox 13y ago
Nice idea, but please give it a name that makes the language easy to discuss and search for.
There's no way I'm going to work on Monday and discussing: 'did you see that new language that I have no idea how it's pronounced that was on HN?'
- iso8859-1 13y agoAlmost all other languages have ASCII names. How do you think South Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, etc refer to them? They figured it out, just like you would, if you wanted to.
- pietro 13y agoASCII may be American in origin, but it's become the global standard, and it's all we have in common. Even Japanese keyboards have ASCII character input.
- WayneDB 13y agoThe name of something makes a big difference in the USA though. If it sounds ridiculous or has a non-obvious pronunciation, people won't take it seriously. Rationalize all you want...the issue makes it a non-starter for many people.
- Dewie 13y agoA lot of the English language is a showcase of non-obvious pronunciations (ex: "finite" [fi-night] vs. infinite [in-fee-nith]), so that seems like a strange complaint.
- danabramov 13y agoI doubt name makes a bigger difference than usefulness.
- gjndrtjh 13y ago"ci" or "cito". As in http://cito.sourceforge.net http://cito.sourceforge.net