Re:Ask HN: What are the most popular non-English programming...
by holaboyperu on Friday May 20, 2016 @06:43PM
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Yes, I agree with you with most of what you said, however, there are dozens of programming languages in English that don't get enough attention, why can't a non-English language be popular in its part of the world?
Re:Ask HN: What are the most popular non-English programming...
by Tomte on Saturday May 21, 2016 @12:26AM
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Ah, the times when Microsoft translated VBA keywords into German...
But while they gave that up, we still have localized Excel function names. I don't know how robust exchanging Excel files really is, it makes me nervous, at least.
But given that many companies are global now and Excel is an important backbone to any company, there cannot be more than rare and minor problems with it, I guess.
Re:Ask HN: What are the most popular non-English programming...
by jobigoud on Sunday May 22, 2016 @01:00AM
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And also the netsh urlacl command line where you have to put the standard user group name "everybody" in the computer's locale.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18855607/create-sddl-fai...
I mean, culturally it's nice to have many languages throughout the world but imagine how easier everything would be if everybody on the planet spoke the same language. Now imagine if you had to relearn the name of "true", "false", "if", "for", etc. each time you change language… Bonkers.
Anectdote: As a non native speaker myself, I learned to use the while loop before I knew what the word "while" meant. The subset of English words used in programming can be learned pretty quickly.
So, yes, it is not worth it IMHO. For better or worse, English is the way to go.