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submitted 11 months ago by StorageB@lemmy.one to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

If you're from a non English speaking country, do you first have to learn English if you want to get into programming?

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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Bash commands feel like fake English to me. I know they're abbreviations, but that's the closest I felt to simulating that feeling of a non-english speaker memorizing commands to do something.

[-] lupec@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I love that, great analogy! I don't think I'd ever make that connection since I'm pretty sure they both sounded about equally alien back when I was introduced to them ๐Ÿ˜…

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