On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:25:15PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
: Juerd wrote:
: >>According to Wikipedia there are around 400 million native English
: >>speakers and 600 million people who have English as a second language.
: >>Should the remaining ~5.5 billion humans be exluded from writing perl
: >>code just so that we English speakers can understand all the code that is
: >>written?
: >Yes.
:
: So, you gladly invite the curse of semantic fixation.
:
: 我不邀
Hmm, speaking of semantic fixation, in Japanese that last character
has come to mean "ambush" rather than "invite". But either way,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]&n3
:-)
(give or take a word order or two).
: As we will know exactly what are symbols and what is code, it should
: even be possible to automatically perform L10N on source code, without
: breaking it.
Well, only if you stick to a standard dialect. As soon as you start
defining your own macros, it gets a little trickier.
: So stop being empirical!
Empires also have their occasional uses. :-)
Larry
