On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Landon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The reality is that the software world is dominated by the > western world and the English language. (How many programming languages do > you know of that are written in Russian?) :] I hope a Russian answers, because given the split between the Soviet and western worlds in the early years of computing, I am sure there must be several. Of course, our lack of knowledge is merely proof positive of our insularity. One of the things I found interesting reading the gvSIG code base is how the variable and class names are in Spanish, but (necessarily) the language keywords (for, if, while, then, protected, static) are English. It makes for an interesting soup. P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss