Greg Ewing wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > >>If you are told to debug a program >>written by say a Japanese programmer using Japanese identifiers >>you are going to have a really hard time. > > > Or you could look upon it as an opportunity to > broaden your mental horizons by learning some > Japanese. :-)
I just took Japanese as exmaple for a language and script that I don't know anything about. I would actually love to learn some Japanese, but simply don't have the time for learning it. Anyway, I could just as well have chosen Tibetian, Thai or Limbu scripts (which all look very nice, BTW): http://www.unicode.org/charts/ Perhaps this is not as bad after all - I just don't think that it will help code readability in the long run. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 27 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com