I am Italian, and I learned to program quite early - before really knowing English.
In my experience, the fact that most programming languages use English keywords is not a big obstacle - for two reasons: 1) each programming language has very few reserved keywords - dozens at most, compared to thousands of words you need to know in a new foreign language. 2) a programming language is a **language** anyway, so the effort is mostly in learning the meaning of each keyword, its syntax, and how to use it. Having said that, English speakers have great advantages when studying programs documentation, as most languages and libraries are **documented** and commented in English. But in my opinion the fragmentation created by "everyone writes programs, comments and docs in its own language" would be **much** worse. For reference, some years ago at work I had to integrate a program written in German - identifiers, function names, even comments were in German. It was a nightmare, and it took months even with help from other (Italian) people that knew the program and the meaning of each identifier and function. Regards, cosmos72 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
