On Mar 4, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Herby Vojčík wrote: > > P.P.S.: I don't know what 'beget' means (I know I can find it, just to > illustrate it's not a commonly known word).
I've had a concern about the possible impact of keyword choice on non-native English speakers who are trying to learn or use the language. Presumably, that is (or will be) the majority of ES developers. Being a native English speaker, I don't have any direct experience with this (for ES ior other PLs). But we do have non-native speakers on this list and specific feed back from them would be interesting. However, I suspect that the non-native English followers of this list are probably, on average, much more fluent than the average non-natiive English web/Es developer. If you don't know the word, is it easier to learn a new symbol (eg <|) or a new keyword (eg beget)? Long term, does it make any cognitive difference? Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
