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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by Moru on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:24AM (#21353225)
Yes, that has been a constant confusion for me since they started translating office. Why would you translate commands to another language?
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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by jobigoud on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:30AM (#21353253)
I think it's supposed to be more like a DSL, aimed at non-programmers. So it may make sense to translate something like "Average", if you don't expect your target users to know english.

Not as stupid as translating low level error messages.

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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by magicalhippo on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:12AM (#21353462)
But it should be a presentation thing. The formulas stored in the file should be the same regardless of language. There's no good reason not to.
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