On Tuesday, 28 May 2013 at 00:11:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Every time I've been to a programming shop in a foreign country, the developers speak english at work and code in english. Of course, that doesn't mean that everyone does, but as far as I can tell the overwhelming bulk is done in english.
That's because you have an academic view of code, and a library approach to development.
When you are a private company selling closed source code, I really don't see why you'd code in English.
IMO, whether it is a bad idea is not for us to judge (and less so to stop), but for each company/organization to choose their own coding standard.
