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Re: Common language? [was re: black hat .cn networks]
From: Scott Francis <scott () virtualis com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:55:17 -0700
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:41:57AM -0400, Deepak Jain exclaimed:
I am sure numerically, Chinese speakers are pretty comparable to English speakers, but the trend (technologically) does favor English IMO. I have never seen a C compiler that used Chinese or French syntax, though you could always make them do I/O in whatever language you want. Microsoft has Windows speaking a number of languages too. Until compilers are written in a non-English syntax and popularized, I suspect computer/data support for English will always be a bit better (and therefore easier to use) than non-English.
thank you. This was what I was driving at in my original post, but I managed to neglect to include the specifics of that particular point.
Yes, it is incidental that it is English, but I, for one, am glad I don't need to do "ecrivez" lines in C with an accent over the e from my keyboard everytime I need to dump debugging output to a screen.
[Yes, I am trivializing an issue some feel very strongly about...]
it's entirely possible that some are also a bit too sensitive, and rather than wasting time complaining about the current state of affairs, should direct their energy towards changing that state. -- Scott Francis scott@ [work:] v i r t u a l i s . c o m Systems Analyst darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t West Coast Network Ops GPG keyid 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui
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- Re: black hat .cn networks Adrian Chadd (May 09)
- Re: black hat .cn networks Randy Bush (May 09)
- Re: black hat .cn networks dklindt (May 09)
- Re: black hat .cn networks Scott Francis (May 09)
- Re: black hat .cn networks Shawn McMahon (May 09)
- Re: black hat .cn networks Jim Dixon (May 09)
- Re: black hat .cn networks Steve Sobol (May 09)
- Common language? [was re: black hat .cn networks] Clayton Fiske (May 09)
- RE: Common language? [was re: black hat .cn networks] Deepak Jain (May 09)
- Re: Common language? [was re: black hat .cn networks] Scott Francis (May 10)
- Re: Common language? [was re: black hat .cn networks] Adrian Chadd (May 09)
- Re: Common language? [was re: black hat .cn networks] David Diaz (May 10)
- Re: Common language? [was re: black hat .cn networks] Clayton Fiske (May 10)
- Re: black hat .cn networks batz (May 09)
- Re: black hat .cn networks Shawn McMahon (May 09)
- Re: black hat .cn networks Michael C . Wu (May 11)
- foreign upstarts dare to use their own languages [was: Re: black hat .cn networks] Joe Abley (May 09)
- Re: black hat .cn networks Shawn McMahon (May 09)
- Re: black hat .cn networks Dan Hollis (May 08)
- Re: black hat .cn networks Masataka Ohta (May 08)