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> Many Germans are used to writing Excel formulas in German. And many Japanese are used to writing Excel formulas in Japanese. Excel is such a crap program. G
by hulitu 2y ago
> Many Germans are used to writing Excel formulas in German.
And many Japanese are used to writing Excel formulas in Japanese.
Excel is such a crap program. Good luck with spreadsheets which have formulas in anothe language.
> Or, better yet, why not a built-in translation layer in a programming language, that would allow writing code in any language, and translate that on the fly
Because some words' meaning is context dependent.
"We don't need no education"
- miroljub 2y ago> Because some words' meaning is context dependent. And English is the only language where that is true? > "We don't need no education" Then educate yourself and learn another language. Something tells me you are fluent only in English.
- t_mann 2y ago> Good luck with spreadsheets which have formulas in anothe language. Excel always shows the formula names in your system language. If happen to be on a computer set to Japanese and prefer English, just set it to that. Why does the whole world need to assimilate to English to save you the - rare - inconvenience of two clicks?