discuss: Re: Language
Subject:
Re: Language
From:
Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
Date:
14 Apr 2002 21:03:18 -0000
Message-Id: <20020414210251.XONK1143.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@there>
AH! That makes sense to me!
It was interesting doing tech support when I lived in Canada. Our French
speaking reps often struggled for technical terms and often ended up having
to use English terminology within the context of their conversations. So I
can understand why it would be difficult to write French code, other than the
variables.
Does that make it harder for programmers from other countries, or is it
assumed that all programmers speak English? There can't be that much in the
code that would have to prompt someone to learn the entire language, but it
makes me wonder!
Thanks for satisfying my curiosity!
And JDD, I'll try that some time!
On Sunday 14 April 2002 23:44, sebastien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > >I am curious to know what percentage of programs are written in
> > > languages other than English.
>
> well I know only microsoft translated excel's functions, so that in french
> we have a nice "Si" instead of if but well... As far as french is concerned
> it is not a language really usable for scripting because you need a
> sentence, a context, whereas in english you can easily put words alone,
> there is no conjugation, the words are sometimes shorter, that is why I
> assume most programming languages are in english, but variable's name are
> often in the programmer language, that ensure him it is not a specific
> variable, and gives him some satisfaction to write in his own language :]
> same for function's name and such things.
--
Tabatha
