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A Language for the Web

Command Line Heroes

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The Importance of English Programming Languages

Gretchen mc cullick is an internet linguist and the author of because internet understanding the new rules of language. We asked her to walk us through some of the ways english programming languages and market languages give one part of the population an advantage. If you can't read what people have put on stack exchange, or it takes you twice as long to read because you don't speak the language then that's also a significant barrier to using a programming language. After 19 95, a non english coter working on the web would have been guaranteed to run into those barriers everywhere. Standardization guaranteed it.

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