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[janderson]

Charlie wrote:
> I think
>  > languages will slowly converge into one universal language being made up
>  > primarily of English (although its name may change).
> 
> My bets on chinese ;).

You may be right.  One interesting fact is that China has the biggest 
speaking English population in the world.


> 
> janderson wrote:
>> Falk-Florian Henrich wrote:
>>> Am Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:16:08 -0700 schrieb janderson:
>>>
>>>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>>> Personally I don't think D is anywhere near the threshold of having to
>>>> much.  Take a look at the most successful langugage (English), it keeps
>>>> getting bigger and bigger every day.  We just don't have enough syntax
>>>> to describe everything.
>>>
>>> Without discussing what "successful" is supposed to mean in the realm 
>>> of natural languages, I think the syntax of English is shrinking 
>>> rather than growing. Plus, today's lingua franca is a tiny subset of 
>>> English with a type discipline comparable to that of K&R C.
>>>
>>> Apart from that, I agree with you that D's syntax is a lot easier to 
>>> understand than that of C++.
>>>
>>> Falk
>>
>> By successful I mean most widely used, which is what we want D to become.
>>
>> I guess, once a word is added to the English language it doesn't go 
>> away  easily.  English reached the 1-million mark last year.  I've 
>> heard that most people stick to around 2000 world in their everyday 
>> speak.  I think languages will slowly converge into one universal 
>> language being made up primarily of English (although its name may 
>> change).
>>
>> I think programming languages and file formats will be one of the 
>> biggest driving forces behind this.  Since most people want technology 
>> and much of it is English at some level.
>>
>> http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/language.html
>>
>> -Joel