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Finding a language with which to teach and learn
I have a feeling that computing has concentrated on modern languages as a means of learning. This is part of the cultural imperialism that started in the nineteenth century. In short people have to first learn modern languages before they can learn the mechanics of computing. This appears to me to be fundamentally wrong because it excludes people who may not have modern language skills but they do indeed have the will and the desire to excel in computing.
Anything that limits the number of people who have a skill is not a welcome development. To this end I have come up with some of the ways in which the computing community can provide a platform for other languages to be used so that people are not excluded from the computing evolution that is developing in the world.
Including other languages for computing
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An instrument of liberation
Computing can help the world to work towards the dream of universal human rights. It is not very difficult to cite examples of grotesque human rights abuses across the globe. Some of the justifications for these human rights abuses originate from a desire by people to different culture from values.
We are then told that some culture cannot accept freedom of speech because it can cause dangerous divisions among the community. Some national leaders have gone as far as saying that their people are too stupid to enjoy freedom of expression and therefore they must be censored. I could write a whole essay about the fallacy of such a claim.
Recently I was listening to a rather silly member of parliament talking about “moral patriotism” in reference to an impoverished African country that was on the verge of enacting some of the most barbaric laws that we have
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I have to admit that I have never bothered to think about the distinction between cloud computing and web hosting. I only decided to look at this issue when I was
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