>>>>> "Stavros" == Stavros Macrakis <stavros.macrakis@verizon.net> writes:
Stavros> The fantastically good English of our non-native colleagues here on this
Stavros> list -- I am impressed with every email! -- should not let us forget
Stavros> that there are many *other* potential users who will know little or no
Stavros> English.
Stavros> Even though English is becoming the lingua franca of technical work,
Stavros> there are still many many many people in the world -- even highly
Stavros> educated engineers, let alone undergraduates and high school students --
Stavros> who would be better served by documentation in other languages. So
Stavros> let's keep that in mind in our documentation strategy.
I did not mean to imply that we should ignore all other languages.
But it would be beneficial if the core maxima code were written in one
language, whatever that may be.
And more power to the people who want to translate the current maxima
documentation to other languages!
Ray