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I interviewed at a Dutch company that had offices in Paris and the French programmers insisted in using French for all identifiers. Effectively it was job secur
by User23 6y ago
I interviewed at a Dutch company that had offices in Paris and the French programmers insisted in using French for all identifiers. Effectively it was job security for them.
- monkeybutton 6y agoI worked for a startup where the working language is French and the management mandated that all code and comments were to be written in English. Their justification was that the most likely exit would be by being acquired by an English speaking (ie American) company and that they wouldn't buy assets that couldn't be worked on by English coders. Having worked at companies in both languages I didn't notice much difference in style. One thing that was pointed out to me is that trends and practices (TTD, agile etc.) take longer to reach the francosphere and that French companies are always X years behind their Silicon Valley contemporaries.
- comprev 6y agoA Dutch company I worked for had much of their legacy code with Dutch words throughout. It was rather challenging to onboard international non-Dutch colleagues.