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> Someone would send you a Python progam in French and it would be littered with sinon, sauf, Vrai, etc. While it might be convenient for the native speaker wor
by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Someone would send you a Python progam in French and it would be littered with sinon, sauf, Vrai, etc. While it might be convenient for the native speaker working alone, it would be a nightmare for interoperability.
When you think about it, would it actually matter?
The AST would be the same. As long as identifiers are defined for multiple locales it would be trivial to translate.
- astrange 3y agoThe only language I know of that's tried this is AppleScript. Otherwise this makes it too hard to read sample code/documentation, and MTL isn't good at translating keywords consistently.