Well, back in the 90s the Microsoft Office Basic dialects were internationalized so you could write something like "Für Alle Zellen In DieseArbeitsMappe.ArbeitsBlätter[5]" instead of "for all cells in ThisWorkmap.WorkSheets[5]". But you could open/run this only with a German version of Excel 4.0. To make this available for other languages you had to save it as English version. I remember this was quite horrible, as all (advanced) documentation was in English anyways and you sometimes had to guess the correct translations.
Regards Mirko Am Montag, 29. April 2019 07:36:37 UTC+2 schrieb Chris Burkert: > > I recently read an article (German) about the dominance of English in > programming languages [1]. It is about the fact that keywords in a language > typically are English words. Thus it would be hard for non English speakers > to learn programming - argue the authors. > > I wonder if there is really demand for that but of course it is weird to > ask that on an English list. > > I also wonder if it would be possible on a tooling level to support > keywords in other languages e.g. via build tags: // +language german > > Besides keywords we have a lot of names for functions, methods, structs, > interfaces and so on. So there is definitely more to it. > > While such a feature may be beneficial for new programmers, to me it comes > with many downsides like: readability, ambiguous naming / clashes, global > teams ... > > I also believe the authors totally miss the point that learning Go is > about to learn a language as it is because it is the language of the > compiler. > > However I find the topic interesting and want to hear about your opinions. > > thanks - Chris > > 1: > > https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000101285309/programmieren-ist-fuer-jeden-aber-nur-wenn-man-englisch-spricht > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/bcd29777-7466-47fe-a27d-7a331ff3e831%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
