This is an reply to a series of posts on anglo-centrism in programming languages that have been floating around in Gemini lately. gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-10-31.gmi gemini://alsd.eu/en/2021-11-04-thoughts-anglocentrism-cs.gmi Around thirty years ago I was a kid with a computer. I learned to program quite a few years before I learned English. I also used DOS without understanding English. I knew what to type to do things, but I didn’t know what the words meant. I could start programs, ...
