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I want a programming language that supports German style composite words (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by merari42@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also because, as a person who has studied multiple languages, German is hard and English is Easy with capital E.

No genders for nouns (German has three), no declinations, no conjugations other than "add an s for third person singular", somewhat permissive grammar...

It has its quirks, and pronunciation is the biggest one, but nowhere near German (or Russian!) declinations, Japanese kanjis, etc.

Out of the wannabe-esperanto languages, English is in my opinion the easiest one, so I'm thankful it's become the technical Lingua Franca.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 points 4 months ago

Had the world settled on German, someone might be making a similar argument that the world dodged a bullet by choosing a language with phonetic orthography and words composed of logical building blocks rather than a mess like English