Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: Abigail
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 09:01 on 16 Dec 2006
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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

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