[Tutor] Question on tkinter event binding

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi Patty,
 
As far as books are concerned, I actually prefer (programming) books in the 
English language. Although the Dutch don't do it as much as e.g. the French or 
the Germans, I hate it when technical terms are translated into Dutch in a 
somewhat artificial way ("Computer" is "Ordinateur" in French and "Rechner" in 
German [although "Computer" is also OK]; in Dutch it's simply "Computer") . It 
also makes it harder to find additional info on the internet. In addition, books 
in the English language are usually far cheaper than those in Dutch.

As far as programming itself is concerned, I find it slightly more readable to 
use Dutch variable and function names. The risk of name clashes is also 
virtually absent! In my office we have a coding convention which states that 
Dutch names should be used. I must confess, however, I don't always consistently 
follow the convention. One example are getter and setter methods. It's just 
clearer to use 'get'  and 'set'  in the method name. When I download software, I 
use then 'as-is'. I might translate code snippets so it blends better with the 
rest of the code. If I send snippets to e.g. this mailing list, I usually 
translate the variable names + comments --only this time I was a bit lazy. ;-)

 Cheers!!
Albert-Jan


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From: Patty <patty at cruzio.com>
To: Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com>; Python Mailing List <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Fri, December 3, 2010 11:39:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Question on tkinter event binding

 
Hello Albert-Jan:
I am glad you made the comment below.  I was fascinated with the fact that your 
code was  partly in English/Python and also in Dutch.  I am a linguist so have 
great  interest in bilingualism.  How does this work in practice?  I mean as  a 
programmer, with native language other than English, do you download or buy  
English language software programs and work with them as-is?  Do you have  
translated tutorials to help you learn?  If you had a Dutch language  software 
program and created your own program so that everything is totally in  Dutch, 
and you wanted to communicate with English language email group :)   How would 
you do that?  Or would you try and find a Dutch language  resource?
 
Besides that, I am definitely saving your code  segments for the future.  Thanks 
for sharing.
 
Patty
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>From: Albert-Jan Roskam 
>To: Albert-Jan Roskam ; Python Mailing List 
>Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:18    PM
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] Question on tkinter    event binding
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>I'll    paste the working code below. It's partially in Dutch, but hey, so is 
>Guido    van Rossem. ;-)
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