On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:12:40 +0200, René Fleschenberg wrote > The X people who speak "no English" and program in Python. I > think X actually is very low (close to zero), because programming in > Python virtually does require you to know some English, wether you > can use non-ASCII characters in identifiers or not. It is naive to > believe that you can program in Python without understanding any > English once you can use your native characters in identifiers. That > will not happen. Please understand that: You basically *must* know > some English to program in Python, and the reason for that is not > that you cannot use non-ASCII identifiers.
There is evidence against your assertions that knowing some English is a prerequisite for programming in Python and that people won't use non-ASCII identifiers if they could. Go read the posts by "HYRY" on this thread, a teacher from China, who teaches his students programming in Python, and they don't know any English. They *do* use non-ASCII identifiers, and then they use a cleanup script the teacher wrote to replace the identifiers with ASCII identifiers so that they can actually run their programs. This disproves your assertion on both counts. -Carsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
