Will this spawn local (non-english-romano) programing languages? Will they have to "re-invent the wheel"?
Obviously, all programming languages today are a subset of english with some punctuational and structual differences. A non-english speaking (reading) person confronted with a totally non-english computer environment will surely not have that much incentive learning english (not at least to operate his computer).
This way, if the person in question want to program his computer, how will he be able to do that ? Why not port C to punjabi ? it should be a matter of patching gcc, now wouldn't it ? This is just so cool!
Just one note on Encarta... In one of the first versions of encarta (think it was '95) My hometown (Örebro in Sweden) had an entry stating that the main industry was shoe-making and shipping minerals.
Ok, so I was quite impressed that "we" had an article at all, but the info in it was true approx 100 years ago. Since then, I've always tried to get an second opinion... =)
Btw.. Shouldn't that be "Generation Z" ? (I know I'm generation Y anyway)
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Who got that trademark ? I think it would be like trademarking the word "sin" to many hindus. (Oh, it's really like sin^{-1} but whatever =)
Obviously, all programming languages today are a subset of english with some punctuational and structual differences. A non-english speaking (reading) person confronted with a totally non-english computer environment will surely not have that much incentive learning english (not at least to operate his computer).
This way, if the person in question want to program his computer, how will he be able to do that ? Why not port C to punjabi ? it should be a matter of patching gcc, now wouldn't it ? This is just so cool!
Just one note on Encarta ... In one of the first versions of encarta (think it was '95) My hometown (Örebro in Sweden) had an entry stating that the main industry was shoe-making and shipping minerals.
Ok, so I was quite impressed that "we" had an article at all, but the info in it was true approx 100 years ago. Since then, I've always tried to get an second opinion ... =)
Btw .. Shouldn't that be "Generation Z" ? (I know I'm generation Y anyway)