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> a pretty recent state of affairs. A quarter century at most When I started programming in 1980 there wasn't even a hint that anyone used anything other than
by KineticLensman 2y ago
> a pretty recent state of affairs. A quarter century at most
When I started programming in 1980 there wasn't even a hint that anyone used anything other than English. The first non-English thing I saw was a message from a Prolog compiler (in perhaps 1983) telling me that I had an "erreur syntactique", IIRC.
More significantly, from 1988 to 1991 I worked on a EU Esprit research project, with Dutch, Italian and French partners. They all coded exclusively in English, even the French partners.
YMMV.
- swiftcoder 2y agoEven into the early 90s a lot of codebases had their comments in other languages. Less common for variable/class names to be in other languages, but there is a reason that Java et al adopted unicode identifiers in the 90's (albeit with fairly little uptake).