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I want a programming language that supports German style composite words (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

A key reason English became the preeminent language of scientific and technical communication, and thus the source of keywords in programming languages, is because German (the other candidate) fell out of favour due to the two world wars. So, were it not for Prussian militarism, our programming languages may have instead been based on German (along with most scientific literature being in German).