قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic

Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by chme on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:55AM (#21355593)

Excel and other spreadsheet software products localize their function names.

So people learn to use those in their native language which is great.

But if they need to use the same software with a different language setting, because they move or work abroad, they have to relearn all those function names, which sucks...

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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by tofflos on Friday October 25, 2019 @11:41AM (#21356092)

It's not great even in the learning scenario. First I have to Google how to solve the problem and then I have to Google how to translate the function names to Swedish.

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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by jacquesm on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:12PM (#21357661)

> Excel and other spreadsheet software products localize their function names.

And, most annoyingly, their thousands and decimal separators. That has tripped me up countless times.

100,991 vs 100.991.

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