Re: English Centricity (or is it USA Centricity)

West Coast Engineering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

> I'd hate to think that:
> 
> 10 IF you work in english THEN 30
> 20 GOTO 50
> 30 LET you be cool and can be part of the club
> 40 RETURN
> 50 LET you be not and you get to be part of the third world
> 60 GOTO 40
>
> is the way it is going to be.

I think English levels the playing field for people in the third
world. I work for a multi-national company, and we can get technical
people together from all over to work with one another because they
all speak English to some degree. They can help one another with
problems when they are fed up with trying to get a useful answer out
of me. Most scientists do not want to publish their work in any
language but English.

On the other hand, creating localized versions of software tools is a
good idea.