From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 13:11:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 13:11:14 -0400 Received: from eventhorizon.antefacto.net ([193.120.245.3]:23991 "EHLO eventhorizon.antefacto.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 13:11:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3B07FA9B.6000305@AnteFacto.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 18:10:51 +0100 From: Padraig Brady User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-ac4 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Oeser CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code In-Reply-To: <20010520003400.N754@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Obviously there has to be some standard base with which to work, especially for computer language keywords as these can't be converted due to name clashes. What would be cool is to pick a better base language than English that everyone would have to learn to "use computers". This is especially important for opensource as it would greatly ease the operation of the collective brain. Something easily parseable would be an obvious criterion and would allow us to interact with computers by voice(-recognition) with no ambiguity, etc. etc... tada: http://www.lojban.org/ 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? ;-) > > > 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. > > > >Regards > >Ingo Oeser >