Name
English Linguistic Imperialism in Programming
Date & Time
Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Description
Did you know that the top 10 coding languages used worldwide are all written in English? Why has no other language translation ever made it close to being as widely used as, say, JavaScript? In this talk, Hannah Chung, Software Engineering at PagerDuty, will discuss how English linguistic imperialism has affected not only programming languages in software development, but also programming cultures in the modern day tech world.