On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 20:47:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 15:04:52 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
src/ders/d.cn/编程在D.print.pdf
src/ders/d.cn/编程在D.pdf
Is "programming" composed as "edit journey" in chinese?
That's kinda philosphical. :-)
Not quite. Many words in Chinese have roughly 10 different
meanings in different contexts, which all gets very hard to keep
track of. 编 can mean to edit in the sense of editing a newspaper,
but it can also mean to weave, to organize, to write, or to
fabricate. 程 is a noun that can mean rule, like "follow the
rules", procedure, distance, or journey.
The best way to translate it is of course "to program", but if
you were to assign meaning to each character the best translation
would probably be "to write a list of rules [for the computer to
follow]".
