From: Luc Heinrich <luc@...>
Date: 2009-08-02T06:48:13+09:00
Subject: Re: How Come Ruby is Text-Oriented?

On 1 août 09, at 20:46, Ian Hobson wrote:

> I guess this is because the English adopt words freely, while the  
> French consider this act "corruption" of the language.

Wrong. It's the old farts of the "Académie Française" who consider  
that adopting words freely is a "corruption" and that using English  
words hurts the "graphie" of the French language (I kid you not),  
while the rest of the population will happily use whatever sounds the  
best or the coolest or helps making any message the most clear. And  
since the aforementioned senile fucktards are the ones who decide what  
goes in the French dictionary or not they actually have to be forced  
by the overwhelming popular usage first, which takes time. That's why :)

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Luc Heinrich - luc@honk-honk.com