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[-] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

It's a simple alphabet for computing because most of the early developers of computing developed using it and therefore it's supported everywhere. If the Vikings had developed early computers then we could use the 24 futhark runes, wouldn't have upper and lower case to worry about, and you wouldn't need to render curves in fonts because it's all straight lines.

But yeah, agreed. Very widely spoken. But don't translate programming languages automatically; VBA does that for keywords and it's an utter nightmare.

[-] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Or worse, Excel, which translates the function names but doesn't do it automatically, so you can only open a spreadsheet if your Excel is configured to the same language as the spreadsheet was created in.

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