Most of the open source projects I’ve looked in from time
to time tend
to have a more or less homogeneous community. To be honest it’s the
first time I have had any contact with japanese people
(even if it’s
only reading stuff they wrote). There’s one thing that I
noticed though:
Their language is clipped, concise, abrupt to the point where an
english native speaker would consider it rude. Most
non-native english
speakers would be used to the american (or - even worse -
british way)
of speaking which tends to add a bit more sauce to friendly (or
authoritative) explanations.And then there are the posts from Guy (Decoux), who uses no words and
only responds in Ruby code
I like Guy’s posts. They make me think like ruby (hmm… reminds me of the
Eckel’s “Thinking in…” series… I would love to hear a ruby counterpart… )