Not at all. People preferred to use english to feel some connection to the world. That was mostly psychological. A Silicon Valley cargo cult if you wish.
Also the company always avoided any use of external contractors.
Also the company always avoided any use of external contractors.
And if it's going to be half-English either way, might as well just do it all in English. If nothing else, it saves time switching keyboard layouts.
Also he gave me his copy of Stephenson's Snow Crash. When I complained that it was so hard to read he answered that for him reading Lermontov is also a struggle. What a guy!
So if I read at random this in English: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43844/she-walks-in-be... and this in French: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Contemplations/R%C3%A9pon... , I can feel a mysterious beauty in English maybe I can't feel in a French poem, while the French one explodes in meaning, makes me think more than contemplate.
Rhymes are like a little funny exercise in poetry to add some music, but really far from the goal, or so I hope. I feel it's one of the many inputs: you have the rhymes, the rhythmic internal divisions of the stanza, the symmetry between them across the text, and you can add lots of little funny meta-meaning by reversing meaning in two halves of two successive stanzas, stuff like that. A poem is just a text that does more than transfer information at the first level, but does it on many more. English, Russian or French, they can all do it.
I've heard things like "we should grow up and use English".
They wanted to be an "elite" in contrast with russian-speaking "peasants".
The rational decision to use English was often motivated irrationally and was not about switching keyboard layouts. There were numerous discussions on the subject.
That is hard to analyze, I'm not a psychologist.
Russian developers with little or no experience in international environment often suck even at naming things in proper English, especially methods/functions. How many times have I seen grammar errors in APIs? But some of those guys are really great engineers who just aren't that much into spoken languages. Some of them aren't great writers even in Russian.
Yes, sometimes the source they write will certainly insult someone else's sense of beauty. But is there anything we can do about it? We can do something but still some people just aren't good at languages. I think we should just accept that it and stop worrying. And those whose sense of beauty is being insulted should think why they choose to use their knowledge and abilities as a weapon against their teammates or as a decoration to create a false sense of superiority. Pretty sure many of them do this out of their inner insecurity or because of attachment (unhealthy perfectionism, insulted sense of beauty).
Also I think that projectional (structural) editors may change this situation or at least give us some insights on how natural languages affect the way we structure our software.