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by musicale 705 days ago
English is the current lingua franca, so to speak, of the computing world.

If it changes to another language, then I guess I'll have to learn how to use the new language professionally, much as an opera singer might have to learn how to sing in Italian/German/French/etc.

Though there are computer languages like APL or Scratch. Or Lisp/Scheme and Forth, which are only marginally English-like (though their libraries may depend on English literacy.)

AppleScript is an interesting language which had English, French and Japanese dialects.