Zach Chinnery
10/22/2004 1:22:00 PM
How about an esperanto version of ruby?
-----Original Message-----
From: trans. (T. Onoma) [mailto:transami@runbox.com]
Sent: October 22, 2004 3:11 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Internationalized source code, was: Re: CamelCase issues
On Friday 22 October 2004 04:49 am, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
| On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:56:34 +0900,
|
| trans. (T. Onoma) <transami@runbox.com> wrote:
| > On one occasion someone (and I can't recall who it was
| > unfortunately) made a fair argument against dependency on
| > capitalization, as it also hampers progression into
| > internationalization. Perhaps that's too forward looking --maybe
| > Ruby will never be coded in Bengali, for instance, or any other
| > language which have no capitalized forms. But I would like to look
| > in that direction at least.
|
| errrrr... what would I do with Bengali source code?
Probably nothing. But what would a non-English speaking Bengali do with
yours?
OT. Actually this interests me. Is it fair to say that English is the
defacto
universal language now? And, short of an apocalypse, just about everyone on
Earth will eventually know this language?
T.