Why knowing English is important for every software developer

Re:Why knowing English is important for every software devel... by Hellion on Monday September 02, 2013 @03:59AM (#6313991)

I know that many programming languages (for example C), have long had tokenizers that are non-English. So the language is the same, the words are different.

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Re:Why knowing English is important for every software devel... by captainpiggies on Monday September 02, 2013 @04:23AM (#6314058)

On a similar note Excel commands are probably the most infuriating thing since I learned programming fro me because they are all in the regional language in my case German and make no sense to me now. (Example IF is WENN in German)

It drives me nuts.

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Re:Why knowing English is important for every software devel... by simias on Monday September 02, 2013 @04:17AM (#6314036)

I remember in high school they simply used a header file that redefined the keywords of the language in french.

Something like "#define SI if" #define "TANT_QUE while" etc...

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