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"Also, a curse on Microsoft for localizing Excel formulas - what where they thinking ?" +1. It's like programming in Java or C and all the keyworks (if, interf

by Kurtz79 10y ago

"Also, a curse on Microsoft for localizing Excel formulas - what where they thinking ?" +1. It's like programming in Java or C and all the keyworks (if, interface, etc...) were changed to the local language. Madness.

brians 10y ago
That was a thing, for a while: ALGOL, COBOL, a few others had alternate keyword sets for non-English languages.
- skocznymroczny 10y ago
  I saw a "translation for C", which was a header that #defined the keywords to their local language equivalents
Tomte 10y ago
MS actually did that with Visual Basic for Applications in Excel 95. Umlaute in keywords, yay! Example stolen from Wikipedia: Prüfe Fall wd Fall 1 ' Auf Sonntag wird Datum vom letzten Freitag zurückgegeben VorherigerGeschaeftstag = dt - 2 Fall 2 ' Auf Montag wird Datum vom letzten Freitag zurückgegeben VorherigerGeschaeftstag = dt - 3 Fall Sonst ' Andere Tage: vorheriges Datum wird zurückgegeben VorherigerGeschaeftstag = dt - 1 Ende Prüfe
- yessql 10y ago
  Ugh, I did some VBA in Germany around 2000. So crazy that keywords were in German (and command and periods have different meanings in numbers). Totally unportable code.