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[serene]

(07:48:46 PM) serenefornow: one of the local alt.poly asshats asserted that all programming languages are based on English. Aqua (the awesome) came up with this link pretty quickly, which is cool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages
(08:01:36 PM) James: A sizable part of the list consists of computer languages that just have the keywords changed from English to some other language. That doesn't change the structure of the language...
(08:03:01 PM) James: I'm not sure how much correlation there is between the structure of most computer languages and English language structure...
(08:04:46 PM) James: Most computer languages have what amounts to a verb / object structure, and a syntax that is very dependent on the position of the words...
(08:04:52 PM) serenefornow: *nod*
(08:05:07 PM) serenefornow: but certainly not all programming languages are based on english, I'd say
(08:06:04 PM) James: well, that's the thing I don't know, and don't even really know how think about finding out.
(08:06:42 PM) serenefornow: it's the "all" that I feel pretty sure is just patently false. Surely there are non-english speakers who have written programming languages.
(08:08:52 PM) James: Ah, but they are writing languages to operate on hardware that was designed to run programs written in languages written in English...
(08:09:24 PM) serenefornow: bah.
(08:09:32 PM) serenefornow: you're fired. next applicant.
(08:09:40 PM) James: hee!
(08:09:56 PM) serenefornow: Funny. I heard you laugh a full minute before I saw you "hee".
(08:09:57 PM) serenefornow: :-)
(08:10:11 PM) serenefornow: so in love with you
(08:11:56 PM) James: I only know a relative handful of computer languages, so obviously I can't talk about all of them, and I barely know anything about any non-English human languages so there's that, but...
(08:12:15 PM) serenefornow: I
(08:12:16 PM) serenefornow: SAID
(08:12:18 PM) serenefornow: you're
(08:12:19 PM) serenefornow: FIRED
(08:12:24 PM) James: I don't know of any computer language that, for example...
(08:12:28 PM) serenefornow: *laugh*
(08:12:30 PM) James: (this is charity work)
(08:12:40 PM) serenefornow: pro bono-bonehead?
(08:13:00 PM) James: amateur boners only
(08:15:26 PM) James: ...no computer languages I know link object to subject the way romance languages do. (can't even think of what that's called right now)
(08:15:57 PM) serenefornow: la la la No te puedo oir!
(08:16:04 PM) serenefornow: (bet you can translate that)

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[onceamy]

Ruby was developed in Japan :)