It’s sad when you realize that Welsh is actually a more niche language than the C standard library
Kinda self-inflicted isn’t it? Or did the UK ban Welsh at schools?
The UK is usually quite keen on erasing local culture
The UK is involved. What do you fucking think?
I ask a fucking question?
Just curious, why did you assume it was self-inflicted?
How long have Welsh people have internet? How many Welsh people have and had the means to archive the language, maybe even try and popularise it? How long was the Welsh government held back from (and probably they were) from teaching it a schools? Did nobody have the chance to create free, accessible Welsh courses for anybody to access? How many Welsh people that could speak it made an effort to teach their kids and others?
There are options to keep language alive. I can understand it being wiped out (many examples and ways to do so), but if it survives and the people speaking it don’t make an effort to spread it, modernise it, and adapt, then it is also self-inflicted. Look at the Baltic countries. Estonia tries to keep up with the times and allows the population to vote on Estonian words that should enter their dictionary instead of the anglicised ones.
I don’t see how not doing the healing work for the wound is the same as self inflicted.
All of those are questions are good historical questions that provide historical insight to the conditions that prevented this restoration of Welsh being as wide spread. But you write them as accusations, not as points for insight.
And the wounds, while similar, are much older in the case of Welsh which means it could be harder to organize people to do the healing work.
It’s very odd to me that you think this is self inflicted and that people aren’t doing the healing work. Why are you so sure? I’m assuming you’ve looked into it.
Why do you think I’m sure? Do questions assert certainty?
You write as if you know what happened and why Welsh is dying out. Answer the questions then instead of whatever moral grandstanding you’re doing.
I’m just scrolling by and saw the Welsh. I know none of the others, so by a process of elimination, I know them all.
Assuming the question implies an inclusive OR, I know all the answers too : True, True, True, True, True, True, True, True.
rhowch
When scooby burns his tail
Shaggy, his arms open wide
Ah yes. A language forced onto unwilling participants by people who still think it should relevant in the modern age. And the other one is a Celtic language.
C will be relevant till the heat death of the universe. if humanity ever dooms itself back to the stone age, all it would require is some bloke to invent a rudimentary binary computer and some nerd to write a basic C compiler for it, humanity will doom itself again in less than 50 years.
I’m pretty sure that is neither and was a text I sent last week when drunk…
Its cool that alcohol brings out your superpower of on-the-fly encryption
Cool… Crippling addiction… You say tomato I say… cries self to sleep
Cwtch is one of my favourite words. Pronounced like “clutch” without the L. It means hug.
“Give us a cwtch ye daft old sod” ❤️oh wow that’s nice. i’ll see if i can remember it.
Sounds like the origin of “clutch of eggs.”
When the grass gets long at my welsh cottage I’m mwyn that wmffre
Long ago in the Windows 9x era there was also “Is this a Windows DLL file, or a transcript of a digestion noise” and the stuff was like “MSGRBL32.DLL”
Dydw i ddim yn deall…
My partner has been learning a tiny bit of Welsh on Duolingo so this got a giggle out of her 🙂
Are there any C libraries other than the standard library that use this kind of naming style?
Besides ncurses
ncursed
A few from llvm (maybe?)
- llyfr
- llanc
- llif
Mwyn is a Super Furry Animals album, and I believe the biggest selling Welsh album of all time. Y Teimlad is a real tear jerker. Cwytch is a cuddle. Heard Nigel Owens say it to two misbehaving players during a rugby match once.
The rest I dunno…
I guess
strxfrmand the like date back to a period in the 80s when symbol names had to be kept short for the compiler/interpreter’s sake. Like while BASIC back in those days technically allowed > 8 chr names, the interpreter only stored the first 8. In other words, the first 8 needed to be unique. As such, people tended to stick with <= 8 chr symbols to avoid interpreter issues. I think C allowed up to 31? But the culture of <= 8 prevailed nevertheless.Then in the 90s, such restrictions were largely dropped in most languages, and symbol names ballooned in size to take advantage of this new freedom. In C++, you even had reserved words growing to the likes of
reinterpret_castaround that time, but APIs just got ridiculous along the lineslengthy_class_name_followed_by_fully_spelled_out_method.Today, people seem to have come to their senses and settled on more reasonable lengths, though not to 80s extremes. Like going back to C++, we have new reserved words like
decltypeandconstexpr. In the 90s, these would likely have been spelled out in full likeconstant_expression?i still have a vague mistrust of file extensions longer than three characters.
like a glass walkway, i know .jpeg is just as safe as .jpg, but there’s a hint of uneasiness.
I also have a vague mistrust of non-alphanumerics in file extensions. Like while .c++ is fine, .cpp feels…safer?
Well, yeah. Why would you tempt the shell to get garbled?
.cc and .hh feels the most serious.
