XPost: comp.lang.c++
From: jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu

On 2026-02-01 17:01, David Brown wrote:
...
> But when people in other countries want to choose an English language
> environment (because English has a lot of influence on the world - for
> good reasons and bad reasons), why pick an environment that has more
> incompatibilities and baggage than necessary? I expect it is mostly a
> matter of sticking to default choices unless you know you need
> something different, and simply not thinking about the alternatives.

The US has three times as many native speakers of English than the
entire rest of the world combined, including the entire British
Commonwealth. When someone from a non-English speaking country sets up
an English compatible environment, there's a pretty good chance he's
doing so to communicate with people in the US, rather than other parts
of English-speaking world.

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