> Personally, I think that it's nice to have an ever-decreasing number of languages to support, preferably English. The first part of that is because it's annoying enough to unambiguously parse one human language much less dozens, and the second part is pure convenience and small-mindedness on my part.
I'll go further and claim that it's all about convenience and small-mindedness.
It's so typical of a certain group of programmers to complain like this. Ugh, why do we have different languages and ways of doing things? Let's just converge on the one I grew up with, or use[1]. Hopefully you won't be forced to work on this kind of thing, or any kind of work that you don't care about/think is worth it. But until you do, maybe you could keep your self-centred navel gazing to yourself.
[1] In the case of English, most programmers who express this opinion write perfectly good English, though they might not be native speakers. They wouldn't be inconvenienced at all if suddenly everyone forgot about their own language and started speaking English, especially since they don't seem to care about languages beyond having some way of communicating with other people.
I'll go further and claim that it's all about convenience and small-mindedness.
It's so typical of a certain group of programmers to complain like this. Ugh, why do we have different languages and ways of doing things? Let's just converge on the one I grew up with, or use[1]. Hopefully you won't be forced to work on this kind of thing, or any kind of work that you don't care about/think is worth it. But until you do, maybe you could keep your self-centred navel gazing to yourself.
[1] In the case of English, most programmers who express this opinion write perfectly good English, though they might not be native speakers. They wouldn't be inconvenienced at all if suddenly everyone forgot about their own language and started speaking English, especially since they don't seem to care about languages beyond having some way of communicating with other people.