snipped...

> 
> Check the history, every language developement tools which 
> tried to do it do not support it anymore. Why? For the exact 
> same reasons listed in this thread.

I am not sure why you say this. Java and other languages support
multilingual identifiers.
The newest standards for programming languages are including this feature.
Also markup languages. (XML)

 
> I'm no pollitician or geostrategy expert, but I do see that 
> english in a _programming  language_ is a good thing. Now, 
> whether people does speak english or not is not the problem 
> and is not our problem. 

He says in english... ;-)

I can speak german, french or english 
> while explaining code writing source codes using english 
> identifiers. And it's the same for many asian or russian 
> friends with their respective languages. But the only time I 
> tried to write code in french and I have had to explain it in 
> another language, it does not work out and it does not work 
> out for the other with other languages (was german and russian).

ok, so you shouldn't program in french. For others it is fine and works
better than english.


> 
> I think you are just mixing end user applications requirement 
> (i18n) and programming language requirements.

I don't think you have made a case for why it shouldn't be allowed. Only
that you don't like it and it doesn't work for you. But nobody will make you
use non-english terms, so it shouldn't be an issue for you.

Let's agree to disagree. I don't think either of us is shedding much
additional light here now.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> --Pierre

Regards as well,
tex

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