Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Recent history of vi Date: 7 Dec 2025 18:52:06 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <10ga6r1$7ph$1@news.misty.com> <10gpatq$jpt$3@news.misty.com> <69334624$0$11430$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10h175s$2b64m$19@dont-email.me> <10h3nqp$3d46i$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net xW4we6s1JqbvhiWx+0QwHwbQ6CCqDH1seX64o0E/4SovOxdTbh Cancel-Lock: sha1:2lVJ1XofD/vdFxrxdzh8rW0larA= sha256:/T/NEQk0RtScAgb4ond//nzSKUJP25qIdPxIdzCWMbk= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78411 alt.folklore.computers:232415 On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 11:18:49 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 06/12/2025 19:51, rbowman wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 12:22:19 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> I think this is the best summary. In the end nearly everybody's first >>> or second language is now [some form of] English, and I bet Chinese >>> programmers don't type their C code in ideograms. >> >> I've seen C written in languages other than English. To clarify, the C >> key words are the same, if, else, int, #include, and so forth but >> variable and function names, comments and everything else are in >> Spanish, German, and so forth. It's difficult to read. >> > Well I purposely said Chinese ideograms. All normal alphabetical > languages that can be written in ASCII are of course fine That technique of typing a phonetic description in western characters and selecting an ideogram from a popup would do wonders for programming efficiency.