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20 keywords, but what about EscapeString, or SpringContextIntegrationTest? A program can use a lot of English words.

• 411111111111111 6y ago
  How does a cord for fleeing tell you anything about what it actually is? Both of your examples bring very little meaning from their English definition. You just know a second definition in the context of programming, which is why you can deduce what it does. The same applies to the people that don't fluidly speak the language.
  • adwn 6y ago
    I'm not a native English speaker, but most of what I read on a day-to-day basis is in English. And yet, whenever I see or hear the term "string", I associate it with "sequence of characters", not with "cord". Same goes for "thread", but even more strongly [1] So I agree, you don't have to speak fluent English to be able to read and write programs. Knowledge of English grammar won't help (except for reading comments – if they exist...), and the vocabulary is small, specialized, and has little to do with colloquial language. [1] Or should it be "...even stronger"? I don't think so, because it refers to the verb "goes", so it should be an adverb, right?
• lifthrasiir 6y ago
  I've seen several coding conventions that prohibit the use of past perfect aspect in boolean query methods (e.g. `checked`) in favor of an explicit auxiliary verb (e.g. `didCheck`). Also sophisticated concepts frequently get transliterated. 20 might be a stretch but less than 1000 is not that impossible.
• pjmlp 6y ago
  Easy, you would code it in your own language. Here in Europe is quite common to be faced with programs where everything written in-house uses the local language, including comments, only the third party libraries use English. I already had a couple of consulting gigs where what got me the deal was my knowledge of the specific (human) languages being used.