My two cents on this, since I teach beginner courses on a regular basis:
All languages - that I'm aware of - have English as their basis. As a
matter of fact our industry as a whole have English as it's basis. I
often tell my students: learn English. You'll eventually need it and it
will provi
We (Russians) have got such experience already. The language is 1S where
syntax is Cyrillic. This kind of syntax doesn’t like even Russian patriots.
чт, 11 апр. 2019 г., 23:16 Benjamin Morel :
> The problem with this approach is that while it may become more readable
> for the native speaker, it
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:32 AM Michael Morris wrote:
> Submitted to the floor is a Wired article from 2 days ago I came across
>
>
> https://www.wired.com/story/coding-is-for-everyoneas-long-as-you-speak-english/
>
> The manual of PHP is translated into multiple languages - but what are the
> de
The replies so far have been excellent and I do appreciate the time given
to write them. Being a lazy one-language American (I tried to learn Spanish
but I've forgotten most of what I learned out of lack of use) I'm not
familiar with the obstacles to learning English beyond "gittin rid my
accint" w
Hi,
On Do, 2019-04-11 at 15:32 -0500, Michael Morris wrote:
> Submitted to the floor is a Wired article from 2 days ago I came
> across
>
> https://www.wired.com/story/coding-is-for-everyoneas-long-as-you-spea
> k-english/
>
Oh, memories. Microsoft Office has (or had) localised macros. This lea
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 1:10 AM Derick Rethans wrote:
>
> My favourite annoyance is using a non breaking space in
> function/method names ;-)
"Better" yet, you can use characters that are different, but look the
same as Latin chars
e.g. CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES (U+0441) instead of (LATIN SMALL LE
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019, Walter Parker wrote:
> I also am old enough to have used/remember using BASIC. I remember German
> and Japanese friends that wrote in BASIC. It was interesting to see German
> programs where all the keywords were in English and all the text was in
> German. The Japanese was ev
I also am old enough to have used/remember using BASIC. I remember German
and Japanese friends that wrote in BASIC. It was interesting to see German
programs where all the keywords were in English and all the text was in
German. The Japanese was even more strange as the system had to switch
between
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:17 AM Benjamin Morel
wrote:
> This may be harder for people having a native language with a different
> alphabet, though.
>
That's unlikely to be a problem. Even to get to the PHP manual you have to
type `www.php.net` (or `google.com` if you want to google something),
Hi!
> I'll stop there cause I know there are problems I haven't thought of. And
> I'm not going to argue the syntax I just kicked out from the top of my head
> is the best either.
For better or for worse, English is the lingua franca of the internet
technology. You can, of course, create a compil
The problem with this approach is that while it may become more readable
for the native speaker, it becomes pretty much impossible to read for the
rest of the world.
Having one single syntax for everyone allows all programmers in the world
to share code. I can't imagine a world where I'd find a lib
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