Wolfgang Jeltsch schrieb: > 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?
I most like identifiers like "getZahl". :-) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
