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I wonder what’s the majority of the source code in German like? Is it mostly in English or German?
by dirtylowprofile 8y ago
I wonder what’s the majority of the source code in German like? Is it mostly in English or German?
- ahartmetz 8y agoEnglish
- bunkerbewohner 8y agoBased on what I've seen source code is almost exclusively English, apart from a few identifiers here and there that are hard to translate, e.g. legal terms.
- kitten_mittens_ 8y agoEuropean English for code. It's sufficiently different from American that it's sort of got its own rules at this point. It's difficult to understand sometimes. Most docs at my >200 dev shop including contractors are in German though. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-02/the-english-language-no-longer-belongs-to-britain-and-america https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-02/the-en...
- ben_w 8y agoWhere I’m at, the source code is English even though I’m the only non-German in the company (and I have been learning German for a while). Documentation is a mix of English and German.
- tatami 8y agoMajority I would suspect in English, but there is plenty of "German" source code, including hilarious mixes of both languages in method names etc.