Re:Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language
by oh-kumudo on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:17PM
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English is THE candidate. Lingua franca is not decided by merits, but by adoption rate, which makes English is only choice on the table. It is the British empire+US hegemony, since WWII/Cold War that makes English lingua franca as it is today.
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Re:Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language
by LV-426 on Friday January 12, 2018 @08:09PM
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> It is the British empire+US hegemony, since WWII/Cold War that makes English lingua franca as it is today.
To be fair, it's also centuries of important contributions from English-speaking countries in science, technology, industry, aviation, literature, etc, etc, as well as, since WWII at least, music, TV, film and other forms of popular entertainment.