Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > In the next decades and starting very soon, the world's most > understood languages will be Chinese and Hindi, and especially those > two will have a huge influence on the IT world. And only the people > who don't read Chinese on Hindi are blind to that. > > It is very short sighted to not take that into account.
Chinese and Hindi the most understood languages of the world? I doubt that. Languages have in the past spread 1. through conquests, 2. through culture (music, literature, cinema, ...). China (PRC) is an aggressive state (*), but IMO it will not conquer the U.S. nor Europe in the next 50 years; and India is not an aggressive state. Chinese culture is mostly unknown in the rest of the world. Indian culture spreads out, but very slowly; Bollywood will take a long time to replace Hollywood. The influence of languages is large in IT world if 1. the language is wide-spread in general, or 2. the language is wide-spread in IT, or 3. the top computer scientists come from a culture that speaks this language. Neither the Chinese nor the Hindi language fits these criteria. Bruno (*) Don't forget that 3000 students were murdered by the government of the "People's Republic of China" in June 1989! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
