Just be glad that the American date format caters to (or for!) those Americans
who say “January two”, not those who (like me) say “January second.” Imagine
what date-formatting code would look like if ordinal suffixes were required!
(Jan 1st, Jan 2nd, etc.)
Andy
> On May 18, 2019, at 2:59 AM,
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:51 PM Andy Balholm wrote:
> That’s probably true of the spoken language; American spelling, on the other
> hand, has changed more than British spelling. This is mostly a result of Noah
> Webster’s attempts to simplify it.
>
> King James Version Bibles generally
That’s probably true of the spoken language; American spelling, on the other
hand, has changed more than British spelling. This is mostly a result of Noah
Webster’s attempts to simplify it.
King James Version Bibles generally follow the spelling of the 1769 Oxford
printing, and the spelling is
On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 05:07:58 -0700 (PDT)
Volker Dobler wrote:
> But if you try to teach 9 or 10 year old kids to program you cannot
> do this in the language alone, you need at least to import fmt.
> And while the handful of keywords are not a problem at all the
> packages used to do interesting
The number of keywords and their "origin language" does not matter
much, that is something we probably can all agree to, especially
with the very few kewords in Go.
But if you try to teach 9 or 10 year old kids to program you cannot
do this in the language alone, you need at least to import fmt.
The solution is simple. Just program in APL. Then _nobody_ can understand
your program and so it is "fair" to all. It is a "write only" language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
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We would have even more fun if we had non-latin characters in keywords
aliases,
and supported both left-to-right and right-to-left writing directions.
But I doubt that this will make programs more readable for everyone.
On Monday, 29 April 2019 10:10:28 UTC+1, Max wrote:
>
> I am Italian, and I
On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 07:35:56 +0200
Chris Burkert wrote:
> I recently read an article (German) about the dominance of English in
> programming languages [1]. It is about the fact that keywords in a language
> typically are English words. Thus it would be hard for non English speakers
> to learn
I am Italian, and I learned to program quite early - before really knowing
English.
In my experience, the fact that most programming languages use English
keywords is not a big obstacle - for two reasons:
1) each programming language has very few reserved keywords - dozens at
most, compared to
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 8:08 AM Reto wrote:
> In my view you don't necessarily need to speak English, although it helps
> a lot.
> Go uses utf-8 for all identifiers, so assuming you treat the keywords as
> blobs and just remember when to use which you should be fine.
>
> The issue being more
In my view you don't necessarily need to speak English, although it helps a lot.
Go uses utf-8 for all identifiers, so assuming you treat the keywords as blobs
and just remember when to use which you should be fine.
The issue being more that all existing packages worth using are written with
I recently read an article (German) about the dominance of English in
programming languages [1]. It is about the fact that keywords in a language
typically are English words. Thus it would be hard for non English speakers
to learn programming - argue the authors.
I wonder if there is really
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