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Sure, but China is a walled garden. English may be the lingua franca of programming, but China is large enough (and isolated enough) that Chinese programmers ca
by pluma 12y ago
Sure, but China is a walled garden. English may be the lingua franca of programming, but China is large enough (and isolated enough) that Chinese programmers can likely get by without using English at all.
- kuschku 12y agoEven in Germany a lot of people and even companies write code in pure German, using purely German comments and variables. (Luckily German has only 7 additional codepoints compared to ASCII).
- pluma 12y agoYes, although I think universities are partly to blame. Somehow lots of professors seem to think writing code in German makes it more science-y (probably because algorithms are generally expressed in German pseudo-code too).