Finding driver bugs with DR. CHECKER [LWN.net]

Finding driver bugs with DR. CHECKER

Posted Sep 15, 2017 12:14 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)
In reply to: Finding driver bugs with DR. CHECKER by anselm
Parent article: Finding driver bugs with DR. CHECKER

It's not the amount of different types of declination etc. that makes a language hard to learn; it's the number of *quirks*, and English is a very quirky language.

Finding driver bugs with DR. CHECKER

Posted Sep 15, 2017 19:35 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Pretty much every language has the same amount of quirks (except maybe for conlangs like Esperanto). It's just that inflected languages also have inflections in addition to quirks.

English is also easy to pick up, you can start with simple constructs and a couple hundred of words and you'll be able to write completely comprehensible texts. In an inflected language you'll have to master inflection first.

Personally, I attempted to learn Arabic and it was really slow going. Now I'm studying Mandarin and it's so much easier to master (module its writing system).