/prog/ - English Prevalence in Programming Languages

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 11:32

How come most programming languages use English in their syntax?

like define, goto, allocate, end, print, return, integer, if, then, else, define etc

Is it an attempt by the western world to increase its global reach, or is it just an auxiliary language?

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 11:34

inb4 "GRUNNUR"

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 11:47

>>1
It works pretty well. A programming language in my native language would be pig disgusting at best.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 12:07

>> 1
English is the de facto standard written language of the internets.
Learn it.
Love it.
Just STFU and deal with it.
Whiny ass foreigners shitting up my internets. Go back to fucking China or Indo or what ever third world piece of shit counrty it is you came from in the first place. AND STAY THERE!

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 12:18

That's why you use APL.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 12:35

>>1
Because english, as such, is a hilariously primitive language, so it fits quite perfectly as a grammar for programming languages.

Imagin e using german instead:



/* argz = argumentzähler, argv = argumentvektor */

integral hauptfunktion(integral argz, charakter* argv[])

{

    schreibe("Hallo Welt\n");

    kehrezurückmit 1; /* that isn't even possible as such with a single word in german */

}

Probably not so bad if you're german, but due to umlauts and the fact that german has a far more difficult grammar than english, it's not really worth the effort.

The same goes with french, czech, polish, russian... Although there have been programming languages that use russian, or indian exclusively. But those languages were usually intended to teach programming, and/or were domainbased languages.

All in all, english as tokens is just easier to implement.

>>4
'murrkan inbred faggot detected

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 12:40



《です　《グルンヌル　フ　ア》

　　《表示さ　《《カッル／CC　フ》　ア》》》

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 12:42

>>4
Go back to reddit.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 12:54

Presumably the language of the ones who paid the salaries for the longest time, whose products supplied the world market, dictated the lingua franca used for programming. Start updating your skills for Chinese COBOL.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 13:18

I didn't know defun, cons, car, cdr, cadr, caddr, cadddr, rplaca, rplacd, and princ were English words.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 13:27

>>6
Go back to reddit, ``faggot''

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 13:29

>>7
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Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 13:29

>>10
CONStruct, Content of the Address part of Register number, Content of the Decrement part of Register number, RePLace CAr, RePLace CDr look like English to me.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 13:33

>>13
and DEfine FUNction. Or is it DEFine fUNction?

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 13:39

>>14

It's de-fun, as in defunning something, as in taking the fun out of something.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 13:41

>>15

Like YOUR MOM?

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 13:43

>>16
軽くレイプしたい

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 13:48

>>17
It wasn't rape when she was begging for it, sorry to disappoint you, kid.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 13:53

>>1
In russia, there is a language called "1C", based on Pascal, it looks ugly and unnatural due to relative dynamic nature of russian compared to analytic english. Same would be for german language and any language which allow mutations.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 14:00

>>19
In Soviet Russia, The Computer programs YOU.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 14:20

>>14
DEfine FUNction.

Name: HAXUS THE GREAT 2011-10-22 14:32

>>21 please refer to >>14, thank you, Haxus

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 14:39

>>11
buttfrustrated 'murrikan inbred

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 15:02

>>22 please refer to >>21, thank you, >>21.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 15:22

>>4
For someone that praises English, you certainly do a terrible job at speaking it.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 15:30

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Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 15:32

You need to git your act together and learn English before you insult the Earth's de facto language.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 15:34

ENGLISH IS GODS LANGUAGE

WHY DO YOU THINK THE BIBLE IS WRITTEN IN ENGLISH?

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 15:36

>>26
condのならstmtそれともstmt

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 15:49



;; Halló heimur í Fjölni



"halló" < aðal

{

   aðal ->

   stef(;)

   stofn

       skrifastreng(;"Halló, heimur!"),

   stofnlok

}

*

"GRUNNUR"

;

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 16:57



functie foo(bar) {

  var a = nieuwe lijst(1, 2, 3);

  print a->filter(bar)->lengte();

  retourneer bar(0);

}

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 16:58

http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/chapter2/alphabet_of_c.html

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 17:05

English is the current franca lingua. Logically speaking, if you can only use one human language for all computer languages, wouldn't it be wisest to use English?

Besides, nobody wants to use foreign words that have to use unicode symbols in their source files.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 18:29

>>31
Even in programming languages, dutch looks fucking retarded.

Why did the dutch even have to steal the german language and abuse it so terribly?

Hell, who's really surprised about that? In dutchistan (formerly known as ``westolethegermanlanguageandabuseditistan'', or ``pedoheaven''), there's even a party for pedophiles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Neighbourly_Love,_Freedom,_and_Diversity

kill a dutch bastard and save the day

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 19:32

I wish I could stab all of my countrymen who write and document software in our national language. I'd probably be the only programmer left in France though.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 19:33

>>35
INRIA does make some good stuff, such as OCaml and Bigloo.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 20:12

>>35
I wish to poke your eye out and skull fuck your brains out. France needs more cheese eating surrender monkeys and less pedantic dick heads changing words to sound "French enough" like ordinateur, or banning "le bleu jeans" from the usage.
I certain fail the see the rational for having any Frogs that can program in the first place. I mean how can you possibly program jack shit in a government mandated 35 hour works week?

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 20:20

>>37
Where have you learned english? What is your nigger-country? I'll understand if you're too ashamed to name it.

Name: HAXUS THE AMERICAN 2011-10-22 20:28

>>38
I'm your very worst nightmare you euro trash double nigger. Was your family collaborateurs for the Nazis? I regret that our boys lost their lives freeing ungreatful scum like you ... twice even.

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-22 22:00

>>35
But ocaml is great.

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