In Lviv, they are asked to provide Java with the status of a regional language *

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Despite the fact that this news lies in the plane of humor (and in part even political satire), it is impossible to ignore it. I undertook to put together and translate some of these fun materials that today walk around the Internet.

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It all started with the site UaReview - where fictional news is regularly published. As usual, part of the online media picked up the baton and published the news at home. In short, it was about the fictional Lviv programmer Vitaly Popov, who wrote in his petition to the Lviv City Council:



“Lviv belongs to cities with a highly developed IT cluster,” the programmer says. “My colleagues and I regularly use the Java language, and naturally, we began to replace some words, phrases and even whole sentences in Ukrainian with analogs from this programming language . In addition, since 1995, Java is rapidly gaining popularity - now a virtual Java-machine can be found on the Mars rover and in home appliances. If the city council of Lviv satisfies our petition, then it will become a precedent. I admit that our colleagues writing in C #, C ++ or PHP will require the status of a regional language for them too. ”



However, after this, the real programmer Aleksey Khilkevich (as it turned out he was 1ex ) registered a petition for the Lviv City Council demanding: “Provide the Java language with regional status in Lviv!”. The petition has been signed by more than 160 1000 1150 people.



“Highly skilled Java programmers constitute an absolute minority of the population, and, under pressure from society, are deprived of the right to communicate in their native language, which is why they are forced to use one or more other languages.



There are often cases when programmers could not name their children by common names in the Java community (Gosling, Bloch, Systems, Object, Trade, Heshkod - the most famous examples among many). Also, according to the latest research in the city of Lviv, there is not a single comprehensive school where students could learn Java, is an obvious violation of their constitutional right to receive education in their native language, ”the address says.



“Recognizing Java as a regional language will ensure the right of Java programmers to communicate in their native language, will provide them with legal protection to use it in court proceedings, in communication with local authorities and in everyday life. On a nationwide scale, it will also contribute to the comprehensive and deep development of the national IT industry, increase the overall level of education in the country and strengthen the role of Ukraine as a state with high innovative potential. ”



If you support the idea of ​​providing Java with the status of a regional language, then the corresponding petition is not too late to sign :)

* not really ;)