Computer an Instrument Effective in Better Understanding English Language and Literature

Abstract

There is no doubt and question about it that English is the International Language. It is language of science, business, library as well as the language of computer. It is also the fact that English language played a very significant role in making of the device of computer popular but it is not a one way process. It is the computer which played equally crucial role in the study, understanding and propagation of English Language throughout the world.

The English Language is sometimes described as the lingua franca of computer science where as Latin and Greek are the principal sources of vocabulary for other sciences, computer science borrows more extensively from English. Due to the technical limitations of early computers, and the lack of international standards on the Internet, computer users were limited to using English and the Latin alphabet. However, this historical limitation is less present today. Most software products are localized in numerous languages and the use of the Unicode character encoding has resolved problems with non-Latin alphabets. English is seen as having this role due to the prominence of the United States and the United Kingdom, both English Speaking Nations, in development and popularization of computer systems, computer networking, Software and manufacturing.