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Because we live in the global world and you can never be sure where will your code end up. I have had to deal with comments and DB schema which were neither in
by rimantas 17y ago
Because we live in the global world and you can never be sure
where will your code end up.
I have had to deal with comments and DB schema which were neither in English nor in a language I speak, there was little pleasure in that. Having at least schema and indetifiers in English would have made everything much much easier.
All programming languages I work with are more or less English based, so having schemas, comments, etc. in English is just a good fit and makes code
easier to get should it land on the lap of some guy in another country.
- jacquesm 17y agoThat may not remain the case for long: http://www.chinesepython.org/cgi_bin/cgb.cgi/english/english.html http://www.chinesepython.org/cgi_bin/cgb.cgi/english/english...
- foldr 17y ago>Because we live in the global world and you can never be sure where will your code end up Well you can't be sure of anything, but sometimes you know for more-or-less certain that English speakers aren't going to read the code.