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I really think the worst problem in programming is language. If you don't speak English basically youre doomed.

eru 2y ago
English helps a lot, just like Latin helps in medicine. But there's plenty of material available in eg German to get you started. (German is just the language I have the most familiarity with. I don't know how the programming material available stacks up to other non-English languages.)
slowmovintarget 2y ago
I don't think that's a bug. I think that's a rather nice feature that programmers all over the world can talk to each other. Programs are written for other programmers to read and only incidentally for a computer to execute.
- booleandilemma 2y ago
  I feel the same way. Modern science standardized around English and I don't mind programming standardizing around English also.
  - staunton 2y ago
    > I don't mind programming standardizing around English also. Will you mind when everything re-standardizes around Chinese?
    - booleandilemma 2y ago
      If and when that ever happens I'll be dead by then, so no :) But I hope humans of the future can standardize around something. It's better than the alternative.
    - justin66 2y ago
      Given China's ongoing demographic collapse [0] it is unclear how that could happen, not to mention why. [0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-population-could-shrink-to-half-by-2100/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-population...
musicale 2y ago
English is the current lingua franca, so to speak, of the computing world. If it changes to another language, then I guess I'll have to learn how to use the new language professionally, much as an opera singer might have to learn how to sing in Italian/German/French/etc. Though there are computer languages like APL or Scratch. Or Lisp/Scheme and Forth, which are only marginally English-like (though their libraries may depend on English literacy.) AppleScript is an interesting language which had English, French and Japanese dialects.
commandersaki 2y ago
I say dash but the military / defence peeps say tac, drives me nuts.
TheLoafOfBread 2y ago
I believe you never had a pleasure to work with translated Excel commands. https://www.excelfunctions.eu/ https://www.excelfunctions.eu/
- MyFedora 2y ago
  Thanks, I hate it.

eru 2y ago

English helps a lot, just like Latin helps in medicine. But there's plenty of material available in eg German to get you started. (German is just the language I have the most familiarity with. I don't know how the programming material available stacks up to other non-English languages.)

slowmovintarget 2y ago

I don't think that's a bug. I think that's a rather nice feature that programmers all over the world can talk to each other. Programs are written for other programmers to read and only incidentally for a computer to execute.

booleandilemma 2y ago
I feel the same way. Modern science standardized around English and I don't mind programming standardizing around English also.
- staunton 2y ago
  > I don't mind programming standardizing around English also. Will you mind when everything re-standardizes around Chinese?
  - booleandilemma 2y ago
    If and when that ever happens I'll be dead by then, so no :) But I hope humans of the future can standardize around something. It's better than the alternative.
  - justin66 2y ago
    Given China's ongoing demographic collapse [0] it is unclear how that could happen, not to mention why. [0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-population-could-shrink-to-half-by-2100/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-population...

musicale 2y ago

English is the current lingua franca, so to speak, of the computing world. If it changes to another language, then I guess I'll have to learn how to use the new language professionally, much as an opera singer might have to learn how to sing in Italian/German/French/etc. Though there are computer languages like APL or Scratch. Or Lisp/Scheme and Forth, which are only marginally English-like (though their libraries may depend on English literacy.) AppleScript is an interesting language which had English, French and Japanese dialects.

commandersaki 2y ago

I say dash but the military / defence peeps say tac, drives me nuts.

TheLoafOfBread 2y ago

I believe you never had a pleasure to work with translated Excel commands. https://www.excelfunctions.eu/ https://www.excelfunctions.eu/

MyFedora 2y ago
Thanks, I hate it.