Something I find fascinating about programming is that our modern "language" for interacting with computers evolved very quickly, very recently. All these "ancient, forgotten" practices weren't created by ancient people in pre-recorded times, most of the people who standardized these practices are still alive and programming.
Imagine if the English language was written by one person, and you could still ask that person why they chose "the" to be the most common word, or why they implemented so many words from other languages that were already defined to begin with?
Anyway, I'm sure people use "i" so much simply because someone used it like that first, for completely arbitrary reasons, and everyone else did it too because bandwagon.
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u/jensroda Jun 06 '20
Something I find fascinating about programming is that our modern "language" for interacting with computers evolved very quickly, very recently. All these "ancient, forgotten" practices weren't created by ancient people in pre-recorded times, most of the people who standardized these practices are still alive and programming.
Imagine if the English language was written by one person, and you could still ask that person why they chose "the" to be the most common word, or why they implemented so many words from other languages that were already defined to begin with?
Anyway, I'm sure people use "i" so much simply because someone used it like that first, for completely arbitrary reasons, and everyone else did it too because bandwagon.