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> use American English What is the reasoning behind this?
by cced 8y ago
> use American English
What is the reasoning behind this?
- pedrocx486 8y agoSomeone being pissy that the British write (for example) centre and not center. A bogus argument in my opinion.
- rizzin 8y agoI assume the goal is consistency in spelling. Choosing American over British is probably just personal preference.
- yen223 8y agoMost code use American English anyway (e.g. "background-color" in CSS), so it's usually a good idea to standardize around it.
- richrichardsson 8y agoI cannot write Americanised versions of words without incredibly concious thought about doing so, which breaks my train of thought. I find it easy to understand what is meant by color, why shouldn't our cousins over the Pond be able to understand what a colour is? (stupid example, but you get the point)
- frosted-flakes 8y agoConsistency, probably. American English is the de facto standard language of programming. I write prose in Canadian English, erring toward British English when it's ambiguous. I write code in American English, because that's what most people expect. But I write code comments in Canadian English, because comments are prose, unless it refers to a variable name or something.
- yawaramin 8y agoI assume because the PingCAP projects are owned by PingCAP, an American company.