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From:
Stephen Zander
Date:
October 15, 2000 13:08
Subject:
Re: how the FreeBSD project gets its "core members"
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877l79q36d.fsf@rabbit.fire-swamp.net
>>>>> "Jean-Louis" == Jean-Louis Leroy <jll@skynet.be> writes:
    Jean-Louis> I know that any discussion I hold in anything other
    Jean-Louis> than French costs me extra efforts. If the discussion
    Jean-Louis> is an argument, held in English, with/against a native
    Jean-Louis> English speaker, I start with an obvious handicap. If
    Jean-Louis> the argument becomes aggressive or literary, the
    Jean-Louis> handicap can become quite huge.

OTOH, all core perl development has occured in English to this point.
How have non-native speakers faired so far?  I know there are a number
of significant contributors to perl for whom English is possibly not
even their second language.

-- 
Stephen

"She turned me into a newt!"... "Really?"... "I got better."
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