We would have even more fun if we had non-latin characters in keywords aliases, and supported both left-to-right and right-to-left writing directions. But I doubt that this will make programs more readable for everyone.
On Monday, 29 April 2019 10:10:28 UTC+1, Max wrote: > > I am Italian, and I learned to program quite early - before really knowing > English. > > In my experience, the fact that most programming languages use English > keywords is not a big obstacle - for two reasons: > 1) each programming language has very few reserved keywords - dozens at > most, compared to thousands of words you need to know in a new foreign > language. > 2) a programming language is a **language** anyway, so the effort is > mostly in learning the meaning of each keyword, its syntax, and how to use > it. > > Having said that, English speakers have great advantages when studying > programs documentation, as most languages and libraries are **documented** > and commented in English. > But in my opinion the fragmentation created by "everyone writes programs, > comments and docs in its own language" would be **much** worse. > > For reference, some years ago at work I had to integrate a program written > in German - identifiers, function names, even comments were in German. > It was a nightmare, and it took months even with help from other (Italian) > people that knew the program and the meaning of each identifier and > function. > > Regards, > cosmos72 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
