Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm

Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by dirtylowprofile on Saturday March 02, 2019 @05:14AM (#19288570)

I wonder what’s the majority of the source code in German like? Is it mostly in English or German?

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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by kitten_mittens_ on Saturday March 02, 2019 @05:46AM (#19288651)

European English for code. It's sufficiently different from American that it's sort of got its own rules at this point. It's difficult to understand sometimes.

Most docs at my >200 dev shop including contractors are in German though.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-02/the-en...

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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by bunkerbewohner on Saturday March 02, 2019 @05:34AM (#19288615)

Based on what I've seen source code is almost exclusively English, apart from a few identifiers here and there that are hard to translate, e.g. legal terms.

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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by ben_w on Saturday March 02, 2019 @06:54AM (#19288839)

Where I’m at, the source code is English even though I’m the only non-German in the company (and I have been learning German for a while). Documentation is a mix of English and German.

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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by tatami on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:16AM (#19289104)

Majority I would suspect in English, but there is plenty of "German" source code, including hilarious mixes of both languages in method names etc.

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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by ahartmetz on Saturday March 02, 2019 @05:19AM (#19288578)

English

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