Chris Jones wrote: «.. from a quite different perspective it may be worth noting that practically all programming languages (not to mention the attached documentation) are based on the English language. And interestingly enough, most any software of note appears to have come out of cultures where English is either the native language, or where the native language is either relatively close to English.. Northern Europe mostly.. and not to some small extent, countries where English is well- established as a universal second language, such as India. Always struck me as odd that a country like Japan for instance, with all its achievements in the industrial realm, never came up with one single major piece of software.»
btw, english is one of the two of India's official lang. It's used between Indians, and i think it's rare or non-existent for a college in india that uses local dialect. (this is second hand knowledeg. I learned this in Wikipedia and experience with indian co-workers) i also wondered about why japan doesn't seems to have created major software or OS. Though, Ruby is invented in Japan. I do think they have some OSes just not that popular... i think for special purposes OSes, they have quite a lot ... from Mitsubishi, NEC, etc... in their huge robotics industry among others. (again, this is all second hand knowledge) ... i recall having read non-english comp lang that appeared recently... Xah Lee -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
