Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 12 04:13:07 PDT 2015


On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 02:12:39 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 19:57:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> Please note, OED (which is the definition of the English 
>> language
>> whatever any USA upstarts may try to pretend)
>
> Glad to hear it. Please tell your countrymen to prefer the 
> '-ize' suffix, as we colonials do, to the '-ise' one, which is 
> a French affectation.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

Funny how people argue about English spelling, because English 
has no spelling at all. It's irrational, inconsistent and part of 
the English class system. Why is it that English has the highest 
rate of dyslexics while Spanish has a very low rate of dyslexics? 
Because Spanish spelling is much more consistent and phonetic 
than English spelling. Gosh, you dare not say this!

Apart from that, spelling is merely a convention you get used to. 
People oppose to "-ize" because they were brought up with "-ise". 
If you have a new generation of Englishmen that were taught 
"-ize", they would find "-ise" strange. It's ridiculous how 
people get attached to stuff like this.


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