Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: David Landgren
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 21:31 on 15 Dec 2006
Martin Ebourne did write:

[...]

> While I can understand the problem for non-native english speakers it's 
> an endemic problem to any software at that level (as opposed to the UI 
> level). I am not aware of any language that's translated in this way 
> (although there's bound to be at least one, please correct me).

Excel macros spring to mind, at least for some late 90s version. SUM() 
became SOMME() in French Excel, and the most hateful thing about it was 
the fucktards who coded the thing didn't even abstract the linguistic 
label away from the underlying op, which meant that an US Excel macro 
wouldn't run on a French Excel program.

It does work these days as expected, and the above recollections all a 
bit hazy now (thank heavens for small mercies) so I no doubt have the 
details a bit mixed up, but I do remember pain.

David
-- 
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