Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > > Those that continues working on programming will surely be exposed > > sooner or later to formal technical English course at University or > > similar. > > The sooner they get exposed to English the better it is. The best > way to learn a language is by using it, and IMHO technical English > is even easier than "normal" English (and often even than native > language).
This sounds like wishful thinking to me. Regardless of whether it's *better* for a fledgling programmer to learn and improve their English, we can still improve Python right now for those who don't master English. > > But, if they don't continue their studies, or choose a different > > career, maybe their English skill will never be enough. > > I think that nowadays anyone should learn English anyway, and the > more you translate the more you make their lives difficult, because > you confine them to a restricted subset of all the available > information (this is getting off-topic though). That will be true if translations are enabled by default, not if they need some explicit configuration switch to be enabled. > > Here, as you point, translation poses a new perspective, why take > > that as a threat instead of an opportunity to bring better > > messages? > > This is a different problem though. Python (and programming in > general) has its own jargon, and the jargon provides a concise way > to refer to specific concepts (e.g. tuple-unpacking). While it > certainly shouldn't be abused, it's often more convenient to use it. > Creating a new localized jargon also doesn't help, and it only > makes things more complicated. Well, even technical tools like gcc or Mercurial have translations these days (not always very good ones, admittedly, but I don't see anyone advocating for these translations to be removed). > > At least some part should be translated too, as for example, the > > Python Tutorial was translated by the local community to Spanish: > > http://docs.python.org.ar/tutorial/contenido.html > > But this is just a part, has not been updated in over 2 years, and > doesn't even cover Python 3. That's not really a problem. People teaching Python in a language other than English can certainly create their own teaching resources (and, ideally, share them on the Internet :-)). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16344> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
