Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 04:06:50PM -0500, Matthew Bauer wrote:
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>I suggest converting suckless project documentation to a more simple
>language, such as Esperanto.
>English does not follow the Unix philosophy or the KISS principles.
>The English language is old, bloated, and outdated. Much of the grammar is
>more complicated than it needs to be.
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>A constructed language such as Esperanto is designed to be easily understood
>and simple. Even though they might not be perfect they are an improvement
>over English.

Esperanto suffers from being a spoken language, and designed for
the laity, no less. I suggest we simply write in the language of
mathematics. Or lisp.

-- 
Kris Maglione
A program is portable to the extent that it can be easily moved to a
new computing environment with much less effort than would be required
to write it afresh.
	--W. Stan Brown