At Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:12:22 -0700, Don Werve wrote: [...]
> The only reason that English-esque languages are prevalent is > that, in the early days, most of the programmers were native > English speakers, and as such, wrote tools and compilers that > best fit their native linguistic models. If computerdom had > started in Germany, then I'd wager that we'd see more languages > which used a German grammatic style. Which would be close to English, English being a Germanic language. Old English actuallylooks more German than English to my untrained eyes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
