Sure one should stick with English when working on an industrial standard codebase that many people on the western hemisphere will work on. Unless off course th

Sure one should stick with English when working on an industrial standard codebase that many people on the western hemisphere will work on. Unless off course these folks are limited to the southern continents where Spanish or French might be more appropriate. And outside the western hemisphere where off course if the code base is unlikely cross, say, outside the Chinese borders, where Mandarin would be more appropriate. Then there are non-industrial standard codebases, say a hobby project. I’m sure that somewhere in Guinea-Bissau there is a 17 year old learning Python at this moment, really happy that they can write Portuguese special characters as variable names in python 3 (if only the documentation had been translated to Portuguese). Just because English is the appropriate language in by far the majority of cases, does’t mean we should deny the possibility of not using it.