will everything be changed over in the 2.5 timeframe? :-)
Padraig.
Ingo Oeser wrote:
>On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:34:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>[Reasons]
>
>>So the "English is bad" argument is a complete non-argument.
>>
>
>Jepp, I have to agree.
>
>English is used more or less as an communication protocol in
>computer science and for operating computers.
>
>Once you know how to operate an computer in English, you can
>operate nearly every computer in the world, because they have
>English as default locale.
>
>Let's not repeat Babel please :-(
>
>PS: English is neither mine, nor Linus native language. Why do
> the English natives complain instead of us? ;-)
>
><off topic side note>
> And be glad that's not German, that has this role. English
> sentences are WAY easier to parse by computers, because it
> doesn't use much suffixes and prefixes on words and has very
> few exceptions. Also these exceptions are eleminated from
> command languages WITHOUT influencing readability and
> comprehensability.
></off topic side note>
>
>
>Regards
>
>Ingo Oeser
>
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