Language support summary/discussion

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

Thibaut Varene:
> > The problem is that weighing these factors is a highly subjective
> > matter, as evidenced by the fact that he ended up with English in
> > the first slot. ;-)
> 
> So you wouldn't ACK English as being the most influential (not to say
> widely spoken) language of the world? Can you tell me in what world do
> you live? :P
> 
If you weigh the number of native speakers more, you end up with
Chinese. In other words, it's subjective, and Martin said he'd like to
use some sort of objective measure (the selection of which is of course
again subjective... no way around it -- but still).

> Anyway, I didn't say we should *use* these figures. I just quoted them
> for illustration purposes.
> 
OK then. ;-)

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