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This English dominance is pretty strong in coding, most Chinese coders in China use English to code because programming languages are written in English (aka th
by forkLding 8y ago
This English dominance is pretty strong in coding, most Chinese coders in China use English to code because programming languages are written in English (aka the if loops and more advanced and they occassionally sprinkle in Chinese characters as variables, comments can also be Chinese) and I've seen Latin American friends using English as well to code when they come over and can't speak English well even. It is pretty much the lingua franca in coding.
Its an expected but quite interesting phenomenon.
- physicsguy 8y agoIt can be quite difficult though; we had a Chinese PhD student in our research group and while his coding ability was amazing and everything 'just worked', decoding what he actually meant in many cases was very difficult.
- kzrdude 8y agoThere are many coders like that all over the world though :-)