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--aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:59:57PM +0000, Martin Ebourne wrote: > "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xxxxxx.xx> wrote: > >As long as it takes? How would you think Dutch/Polish/French/Russian/... > >would like to beat you back with all the `English' verbs in their script > >that uses variable with native-language names? >=20 > How long has perl allowed you to localise all the builtins? Oh, yeah. I'd *love* to maintain a program originally written by my German or Mexican co-worker that uses localized names of variables=20 whose value effects the entire program. That would make me sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy. > And even if it did, what about all the CPAN modules - all the ones =20 > I've ever seen use english names. >=20 > While I can understand the problem for non-native english speakers =20 > it's an endemic problem to any software at that level (as opposed to =20 > the UI level). I am not aware of any language that's translated in =20 > this way (although there's bound to be at least one, please correct me). When we were first taught programming (in Pascal), some students=20 complained the language was using English. The professor responded that "computer languages don't use English. They use arbitrary keywords that just happen to resemble English words". Abigail --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFg7XhBOh7Ggo6rasRAqX+AJ0VR6DpWvIjfFixSoe7b4nHbFWmgACeM5zV OKWBSERql6TXYMwH2lH9VVo= =e08g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f--There's stuff above here
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