this issue involves much more than Go code For example , we for whom English is not our native language use 'Google translate' to translate our golang-nuts questions into English and the golang-nuts responses back to our native language. The second translation often produces produces very-strange (and often laughable) native language translations. So I think it is safe to conclude the first translation produces similar things in English because many of the golang-nuts responses indicate gross misunderstanding of original question.
Some golang-nuts members are native Americans who have very little tolerance for non-American English On Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 6:15:00 PM UTC-4, Chris Burkert wrote: > > Some background why I was asking this: I have a history with > Squeak/Smalltalk and how Alan Kay worked with children. At work I also > teach 14/15 year old pupils during their 2 weeks internship and that is > simply too short to show them something about programming especially when > this is just one topic out of many. We usually convert numbers between > decimal, octal, binary and hexadecimal on the whiteboard. And because they > just knew 0-9 so far it becomes a sudden insight to some of them. These few > kids usually want to learn more (convert numbers programmatically) but > because they are intrinsically motivated the English language is not a > hurdle for them. That’s why I was wondering about the article. > > Thanks for all your comments. Reading the different perspectives about the > topic fascinates me a lot. > > Chris Burkert <burker...@gmail.com <javascript:>> schrieb am Mo. 29. Apr. > 2019 um 07:35: > >> I recently read an article (German) about the dominance of English in >> programming languages [1]. It is about the fact that keywords in a language >> typically are English words. Thus it would be hard for non English speakers >> to learn programming - argue the authors. >> >> I wonder if there is really demand for that but of course it is weird to >> ask that on an English list. >> >> I also wonder if it would be possible on a tooling level to support >> keywords in other languages e.g. via build tags: // +language german >> >> Besides keywords we have a lot of names for functions, methods, structs, >> interfaces and so on. So there is definitely more to it. >> >> While such a feature may be beneficial for new programmers, to me it >> comes with many downsides like: readability, ambiguous naming / clashes, >> global teams ... >> >> I also believe the authors totally miss the point that learning Go is >> about to learn a language as it is because it is the language of the >> compiler. >> >> However I find the topic interesting and want to hear about your opinions. >> >> thanks - Chris >> >> 1: >> >> https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000101285309/programmieren-ist-fuer-jeden-aber-nur-wenn-man-englisch-spricht >> > -- 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.
