At my last job (at a company in California), half of the development team was contracted out of a firm in Russia. I once asked the Russian developers how they

At my last job (at a company in California), half of the development team was contracted out of a firm in Russia. I once asked the Russian developers how they felt about programming in English as opposed to Russian. They all said they strongly prefer programming (both keywords and identifiers) in another language, because it feels more like a "computer language". And there really aren't that many words to memorize, anyway. Just an interesting perspective in the discussion.