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>Someone shouldn’t have to learn Programming and English at the same time. However the attitude seems to be very much "learn Chinese/local language or gtfo" fr
by kkarakk 8y ago
>Someone shouldn’t have to learn Programming and English at the same time.
However the attitude seems to be very much "learn Chinese/local language or gtfo" from the opposite end wrt localisation ie it is nonexistent. I think devs are really giving up something valuable by not pushing for a global standard language for development.
sure I shouldn't HAVE to learn English and Development at the same time BUT who is developing in my language anyways? no language support, no compiler support,no Unicode support and no readable font support. instead of bootstrapping all of that(an impossible task as there is no requirement and no funding from any sources,i've tried but the govt and general public ranges from apathetic to stubborn on this issue), it was easier for me to learn English. I could have theoretically learnt the language one level up on the linguistic chain but I would eventually hit the same issues as I tried to use the available tools.
- jerf 8y agoIt's a nice thought in some ways, but that requirement in particular is where I figured the author must be talking about massive projects, because I'm sure not taking my ~100 man-hour open source project documentation and getting it translated into half-a-dozen languages. A project has to be pretty big (multiple orders of magnitude larger than that) before it can justify having documentation in anything but whatever language the probably-single developer is most comfortable documenting in.