I've seen French and German code that got by with no significant English (outside whatever wrapped the core functions). It's easier in some languages than in ot

I've seen French and German code that got by with no significant English (outside whatever wrapped the core functions). It's easier in some languages than in others. Back in the good old BASIC days, there were even hacks to make those tokenizing interpreters on home computers use German symbols for their keywords. (nice side effect of the tokenized representation: the code remained compatible) Excel and {Open,Libre}Office Calc work with localized symbols for their functions, too. I think I've even seen a C header file that wrapped keywords (through macros), types and libc names in translated versions. Luckily those are rare... So, programming without English is possible - but I really wouldn't recommend it.