قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic

Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by ISL on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:13AM (#21354573)

For centuries in the sciences, it was essential to know more than one language in order to be able to keep up with developments worldwide. As recently as our parents' generation, it was a graduation requirement for doctorates.

That English has become the lingua franca [1] of the world is a recent development. If we would like people to read our documentation, it is reasonable to expect that we should do our best to learn how to read theirs, too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by michaelmrose on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:06PM (#21357605)

There are 6000 languages. Even the top 5 would take a decade of your life. It would make more sense to have a miniscule fraction of people make machine translation better.

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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by novok on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:59PM (#21357536)

Latin used to be the language of science & religion in europe too, it's not unprecedented that an industry standardizes on one language in a region.

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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by gumby on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:52PM (#21357475)

Universities have only recently (past few decades) started dropping the foreign language requirement for the PhD.

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