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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Common language? [was re: black hat .cn networks]
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 [email protected] [work:] v i r t u a l i s . c o m Systems Analyst [email protected] [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 Attachment:
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