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See also Perligata. Not saying Welsh isn't better. I'm neither a Perl nor Latin expert, so I just trust em when they say

> Latin is a surprisingly good fit for Perl. The rich case structure provides an abundance of plausible mappings for Perl data types and subroutine calls...

[1] https://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html

I'm not sure if I agree with it, but you could make an argument that programming languages are colored by the L1 languages of their initial designers. So you might see a bit of Japanese in Ruby, and a bit of Brazilian Portuguese in Lua. But programmers in general tend to have excellent English and are inspired overwhelmingly by languages written by English speakers, so it's difficult to evaluate.

I guess Ruby's compatibility errors for incompatible encodings comes from familiarity with Japanese encodings which presents problems most American programmers would be unfamiliar with.

Python should be written in English.