Daily Archives: 2004-06-21

Baltimore was fun – lots of good people. !!! wa…

Baltimore was fun – lots of good people.

!!! was supposed to show up at the party after their show, but Michael lost his phone and couldn’t give them directions.

The bands that did play were cool, with only a few really memorable numbers. The greatest bit was all the dogs that were there. Tons of em. Running through the stage, playing with sticks, chasing each other. So many dogs. There were around a hundred attendees, and about 10% were dogs.

English in the technology field.

Are there any foriegn language programming languages? Any compilers that can read code written in french or indian?

English may accelerate its position as the common language of science as computers become more involved with technology and scientific publishing. Seems almost all facets of technology are english centric.

The constructs of scripting and programming languages: if, then, for, else, object, class, etc.

The elements of web syntax: head, body, link, title, margin, padding, etc.

Variable names could be in other languages, but it seems that the structure itself is centered around english.

A little research turned up very few that exist, and none that seem to really be in use.

Some have no native speakers, so I don’t know if we should count them at all, but who knows. I’ve been to dragon con – there soon may be native speakers.

Interestingly, Ruby, a sort of Perly+OO languagle, was written by a Japanese man, but it uses english constructs… What would a kanji programming language look like? How could it work?