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by jotux 461 days ago
Assembly instructions are English mnemonics. LDA->LoaD Accumulator, STA->STore Accumulator, ADD, SUB, JMP, MOV, etc.
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jayathra 460 days ago
Exactly! Even in low-level programming like Assembly, the core instructions are still based on English. Do you think there’s a way to design programming languages that don’t rely on English at all—not just in keywords, but in how concepts are structured?
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karmakaze 460 days ago
APL. I also doubt Erlang (Ericsson's language) was based on English.
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jayathra 460 days ago
APL and possibly Erlang aren’t based on English, yet they never became the global standard.

Do you think it was because of technical reasons, or was it just easier for English-based languages (C, Python, JavaScript) to spread globally? If we designed a non-English programming system today, do you think it would actually gain adoption?

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