OT: Programmers whos first language is not English

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:50:23PM +0000, Stephen Horne wrote:
> > 3) You prevent people not able to speak the language from
> > contributing it.
> 
> Nope - by translating at least the keywords, the gap should be
> slightly narrower.

Hmmm... but there are so few keywords in relation to identifiers.

> Of course I'm probably arguing *against* myself here - if the
> keywords are easy to learn, why bother with translation?

Yes, you found a great answer to not materialize your idea (unless
you are doing it for fun).

> > Your idea is nice in that the source code would store the
> > identifiers
> 
> Nope - the mapping from XML element 'keyword tokens' to the visible
> keywords would be in an editor configuration file. Move the source
> code from one place to another and the keywords automatically
> translate according to the new configuration file.

I guess I meant that with fewer less precise words :-)

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