Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words

Re:Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words by abrowne on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:56AM (#23986092)

“Ordinateur” is so much better than “computer”! As Wiktionary puts it

> From Latin ordinator (“one who orders”), from ōrdinō (“to order, to organize”).

> In its application to computing, it was coined by the professor of philology Jacques Perret […] who believed the word calculateur was too restrictive in light of the possibilities of these machines.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ordinateur#Etymology

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Re:Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words by aspyct on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @09:37AM (#23986484)

Funny you should say that. I speak French, and always thought Computer was better than Ordinateur (and yes, it's ordinatEur, it's not a dinosaur :D )

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Re:Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words by abrowne on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:20AM (#23986937)

Thanks for catching my typo. Fixed now.

I guess the grass is always greener? And I come from a humanities background, so the information-organizing and communication uses of computer interest me the most. I can see someone from a more math-focused background preferring "computer" instead.

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