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    1. Manish‏ @ManishEarth 8 Jun 2018
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      lol @ every single damn "language keywords are in English ergo you need English to program" argument. Even if it wasn't missing a step, programming languages haven't been in English for decades, if ever.

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    2. Manish‏ @ManishEarth 8 Jun 2018
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      `for` doesn't really make sense in half the contexts it's applied in. `struct`s are way more than "structured" (and enums are structured too!) on that note Rust `enum` doesn't make much sense and only nerds use "enumeration" in English. Oh, and of course, our old friend `static`

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    3. Manish‏ @ManishEarth 8 Jun 2018
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      `static` in C is the best because it means 50 different things and none of them have anything to do with any actual meaning of the word

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    4. Manish‏ @ManishEarth 8 Jun 2018
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      y'all have been memorizing meaningless keywords for decades, it's nothing special for non-English speakers to do the same

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    5. Manish‏ @ManishEarth 8 Jun 2018
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      Manish Retweeted will

      oh yeah, this one.https://twitter.com/uiri00/status/1005311172134912000 …

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      will @uiri00
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      The best example of this is the "synchronized" keyword in Java which has literally the opposite meaning of the word in English.
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    6. Manish‏ @ManishEarth 8 Jun 2018
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      Also, "function". Everything in your code performs a function. In the mathematical sense, only pure languages have "function"s. The word you're looking for is "procedure"

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    7. Manish‏ @ManishEarth 8 Jun 2018
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      Most keywords are *close* to english words but far enough that we learn them as a separate entity.

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    8. Manish‏ @ManishEarth 8 Jun 2018
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      While I'm dunking on `static`, `static` in Rust doesn't mean the same thing as (any of the meanings of) `static` in C, it's closer to *globals* in C which are not the same thing as statics though they often are also static.

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    9. Manish‏ @ManishEarth 8 Jun 2018
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      or `static` in Java, for that matter. we took a keyword that meant ten things and invented an eleventh. none of them have anything to do with the English word.

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    10. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 8 Jun 2018
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      Replying to @ManishEarth

      I think “static” for function-scoped globals in C makes some sense: the memory location is static (a fixed address) rather than dynamic (a stack-pointer-relative offset).

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      (I know that’s not true anymore since globals and function statics are now dynamic too due to PIC, but originally it made sense.)

      10:39 PM - 8 Jun 2018 from Dogpatch, San Francisco
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