[beardyw]

When I was very young in the 1950s I remember my older brother opting to learn German because so many scientific papers were written in it.

That said, I later opted for Latin for reasons neither I nor the examiners could explain.

[jayathra]

Do you think we’ll always be stuck in this cycle, or is it possible to design programming languages that aren’t tied to any one language, preventing this issue in the future?