Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: java software naming question Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:18:28 -0800 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <396e3ff0-2a44-4d8b-917c-3b9205a567a6@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: K2Qzzs3EAqXk5RLzfhxcSw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21263 On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:40:47 -0800, Roedy Green wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >That happened not >because of any features of the language, but because of the success of >the British Empire. Once it became the interlanguage, it start evolving very rapidly as new technical terms were added. It has a huge vocabulary compared with many other languages. That helps keep it as the interlanguage. It also likes to be specific. Not leaving much up to interpretation is great for science and business but not so great for Zen poetry. One of the most fascinating books I ever read was Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct: how the mind creates language, about how languages evolve. http://mindprod.com/book/9780060958336.html One of the things I think about every once in a while is what would be the characteristics of a ideal interlanguage. I explored Esperanto. It has had lots of time to catch on, but has not. I explore why in my essay on it. http://mindprod.com/esperanto/esperanto.html I am also interested in how you might use teams of computer programmers who do not all speak English. I envisage some SCIDs that greatly tighten up the ability of programmers to track what others are doing and to decouple how the program is displayed from how it is stored. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Students who hire or con others to do their homework are as foolish as couch potatoes who hire others to go to the gym for them.