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Especially if those products are developed by a company from Russia, where Cyrillic is used. For me, a Russian myself, this situation is honestly ridiculous.

• mbesto 5y ago
  Do you write "if" statements in Cyrillic when you write in <insert Python/Ruby/Java/.NET/whatever>?
  • 1-more 5y ago
    There are a few computer languages that have non-english keywords though! And among them it looks like there was a version of Algol with Russian keywords, as well as a bunch of others in the list. Scanning it it would seem that Logo and BASIC get translated a lot, which makes sense for teaching young learners who haven't learned English yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
  • selfhoster11 5y ago
    Why not? Several programming languages in the olden era did get localised.
  • nine_k 5y ago
    No. Keywords are ASCII everywhere (no, APL's are not words). Mixing English in keywords and non-English in identifiers feels odd. Algol-68 supported localized sets of keywords; fortunately this language is gone. You can #define non-ASCII stuff in modern C++. It's your best chance to "localize" a mainstream language. Same would work for Clojure, but Lisp uses a lot of quirky abbreviations like `cdr` or `setq` that give awkward translations.
  • pavel_lishin 5y ago
    It would be very amusing to see "если" in an if statement, given how much it looks and sound like "else" at a brief glance.
  • GoblinSlayer 5y ago
    I thought ArnoldC was just a couple of #define's, but looks like it isn't.
• zczc 5y ago
  Russian companies generally have ascii-only username policies