Natural language isn’t just English [pdf]
Pages 4 and 5 ( &quot;Languages of the world&quot; ) of the pdf are duplicates.<p>I agree that NL isn&#x27;t just English, but the world of computer science, information processing, AI and even linguistics is heavily english-centric for a wide variety of reasons. And unless something drastic happens ( the end of pax americana and the fracturing of the world order ), everything will get even more english-centric. The internet is spreading all over the world. American culture is spreading all over the world. And so is american&#x2F;english.<p>I do wish CS and programming would be less english-centric. It doesn&#x27;t make sense to me that people in china, russia, europe, india, etc are writing code in english. Why not translate computer languages to their native language? Given the nature of programming languages, it&#x27;s so simple to do. Wouldn&#x27;t it be simpler to translate C or python or java to chinese and have chinese students&#x2F;programmer code in the chinese language ( mandarin )? Rather than having chinese students learn english and then learn to code in english?