Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

Re:Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language by dx034 on Friday January 12, 2018 @09:48AM (#16133172)

If you google in your native language you'll get results in that language. I agree that it takes a bit to relearn all formulas (and I find it too confusing to use different versions at the same time) but when I was still using a non-English version I had no problems finding solutions.

I think it was exactly the right thing to do. Excel formulas are often used by people with little knowledge of programming who aren't aware that "if" is a common keyword. Using the local variant makes formulas much easier to understand (and to get people closer to actual programming).

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Re:Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language by nuclearcookie on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:27AM (#16133568)

I agree it's a good move from Microsoft to make Excel more accessible. It's just not something I was expecting the first time I stumbled upon the problem.

I have a programming background so I'm used to searching everything in English, even though that's not my native language.

I inserted sqrt() in my non-English Excel and it didn't work. I thought I had a completely broken version of the program. Took a while to figure out it was a language problem!

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Re:Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language by Nullabillity on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:06AM (#16133368)

And now you need to maintain hundreds of variants of each SO answer.

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