Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
by azangru on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:00AM
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Unless I am mistaken, the language of science in late 19th – early 20th century was German. And then it suddenly wasn't.
Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
by miki123211 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:23PM
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It's easy to start talking about something in a different language.
It's possible to translate most of the relevant literature into that language.
Changing the keywords in programming languages, HTTP headers, JSON field names, identifiers in library code, error messages embedded deep in boot ROMs and so on is much more difficult.
Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
by aasasd on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:47PM
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You seem to think that one needs to learn the human language to learn those keywords. That's demonstrably false, as evidenced by hordes of programmers who can barely read English sentences, much less write anything coherent. They already cargo-cult the programming language words without understanding the human language, and the actual spoken/written languages bear no influence on that. If Spanish becomes the dominant language of the web, some of them will learn to read and write Spanish while continuing to cargo-cult English programming keywords into those conversations.
Everything in tech is English based, from programming languages to kernel boot messages. Even the way we think about text doesn't let itself well to Kanji, never mind RTL languages. While GUI operating systems can handle that, your average recovery command prompt cannot.
Other languages might become dominant in new (or currently under explored) areas of science maybe in quantum computing, bioengineering and such, but computing is going to be tied to English for a long time.