Thoughts about the difference between European and American H/W and S/W design

Re:Thoughts about the difference between European and Americ... by throwaway894345 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:42AM (#23985997)

In fairness, while C++ was created by a Dane in America, anyone anywhere could request a feature addition to the language and it would be implemented, so I think C++ is truly an international language.

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Re:Thoughts about the difference between European and Americ... by gumby on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:54AM (#23987312)

And the Ada example from the article describes a language adopted by and then heavily funded/legitimized by the US DoD (e.g. they funded GNU Ada, made it a requirement...)

Still, the article makes a useful point.

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Re:Thoughts about the difference between European and Americ... by bluedino on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:31AM (#23987053)

And if you take UNIX to mean Linux, that was created by a Finn.

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Re:Thoughts about the difference between European and Americ... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:36PM (#23988670)

And if you don't take UNIX to mean (only) Linux, then it was created at Bell Labs, and not by a Finn.

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Re:Thoughts about the difference between European and Americ... by RealStickman_ on Thursday July 30, 2020 @05:54PM (#24003274)

Can UNIX even mean Linux? I usually hear Linux described as UNIX-like.

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Re:Thoughts about the difference between European and Americ... by esperent on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:53AM (#23986072)

Doesn't that apply to most modern languages? I know it does for JavaScript.

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Re:Thoughts about the difference between European and Americ... by kjeetgill on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @09:40AM (#23986522)

I think it was (mostly) just a joke about how many language features C++ has by implying they've never turned down a feature request.

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