Am Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2009 05:27 schrieben Sie: > On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > > Why do we use English for identifiers? Because English is the language of > > computer science. What English should we use? It’s tempting to say, we > > should use the original English, which is British English. But we should > > ask again what is the language of computer science. And the language of > > computer science is American English. > > It was possible to adopt such an attitude in the 20th century. But this is > the 21st century. We have globalisation, internationalisation, > localisation. We have Unicode, so that people are no longer limited to the > set of characters that technicians from the USA found tolerable back in > 1967.
So I should upload a package with German identifiers to Hackage? Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
