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Re: A system for localizing documentation strings


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: A system for localizing documentation strings
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:54:44 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Let's face it: for programmers, English is the most close to the
> ideal of the universal language.

Maybe it would raise the geek image if programming language vocabulary
reverted to the old universal Latin language.  It worked for Harry
Potter, didn't it?  And that "old language" is magic is really a
universal theme, from Homeric recitors, the Bible, Druids, over
Tolkien, Le Guin, whoever...

grepo, gripsi, greptum.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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