On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 4:53 PM, John Siracusa <sirac...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure if the intersection of people who speak English and > people who program is better or worse than average when it comes to > grammar, but I do know (from editing my share of writing) that the > average is very bad and, further, that many programmers do not speak > English as a first language, or at all.
Adjectives and nouns aren't English-only. So Damian's proposal is multi-culti. One could argue that Perl's identifiers, keywords, etc are based on English so that it is more difficult for a non-English speaker to discern why underscore is used in some places and hyphens in other. The solution to that would be rote memorization of method names, including "_" and "-" in the spelling. Not ideal, but most likely what many English speaking programmers would do too. And would cuss over.
