On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:59:57PM +0000, Martin Ebourne wrote: > "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.br...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >As long as it takes? How would you think Dutch/Polish/French/Russian/... > >would like to beat you back with all the `English' verbs in their script > >that uses variable with native-language names? > > How long has perl allowed you to localise all the builtins?
Oh, yeah. I'd *love* to maintain a program originally written by my German or Mexican co-worker that uses localized names of variables whose value effects the entire program. That would make me sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy. > And even if it did, what about all the CPAN modules - all the ones > I've ever seen use english names. > > While I can understand the problem for non-native english speakers > it's an endemic problem to any software at that level (as opposed to > the UI level). I am not aware of any language that's translated in > this way (although there's bound to be at least one, please correct me). When we were first taught programming (in Pascal), some students complained the language was using English. The professor responded that "computer languages don't use English. They use arbitrary keywords that just happen to resemble English words". Abigail
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