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> difficult to understand for non-native english speakers Au contraire! They managed to almost eliminate any advantage that programmers who speak english usual

• wolfgke 10y ago
  > Au contraire! They managed to almost eliminate any advantage that programmers who speak english usually enjoy. What are those advantages? When I was young and my English was really bad, I simply learned the keywords just as mathematical terms (i.e. if, else, for, while, break, next, goto, gosub, signed, class etc.) - I mean, they aren't that many (say 40 and you've covered most mainstream programming languages that aren't really verbose (OK, COBOL is an exception, but who uses COBOL ;-) ). This really isn't much harder than learning mathematical terms as sin, log, cos, exp, cot, asec etc. even if you know no word of English. What really makes programming hard when you are not sufficiently fluent in English is that lots of documentation is only available in English (this was the main problem I had). And I don't see how Urbit is going to change that.
  • chris_st 10y ago
    > documentation is only available in English As a native english speaker, I'd like to politely disagree with this phrase! (and that was the GP's joke... since they're using so many made-up terms, it effectively isn't english).