Isn’t that the same argument we used to use with Latin? It would be nice if we could all stop time and learn the fundamentals better. However, in the reality we actually live in, most of my coworkers don’t even have time to truly learn SQL, let alone C.
Yes. If you use e. g. numerical libraries, and wonder what really does this algo do often you look at C. If you dig too deep then you look at fortran though...
Lorem ipsum is typically a corrupted version of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC text by the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical and improper Latin.
I don't think that really counts as "latin", any more than hackertyper[2] counts as C code.
On behalf of the poster I'd like to say mea culpa. It was kind of an ad hoc example though, and perhaps they didn't mean that specific example per se but more the large number of Latin phrases one comes across daily without really thinking about it.
I guess we could continue this thread ad infinitum because there are plenty more examples but I'll leave this as de facto proof that Latin remains used: Et cetera.
I would posit that for Latin words and phrases to have become “de facto” English is ex post facto the historical prevalence of people having learned Latin.
