OT: Programmers whos first language is not English
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
gradha at titanium.sabren.com
Mon Mar 10 15:36:46 EST 2003
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:50:23PM +0000, Stephen Horne wrote:
> > 3) You prevent people not able to speak the language from
> > contributing it.
>
> Nope - by translating at least the keywords, the gap should be
> slightly narrower.
Hmmm... but there are so few keywords in relation to identifiers.
> Of course I'm probably arguing *against* myself here - if the
> keywords are easy to learn, why bother with translation?
Yes, you found a great answer to not materialize your idea (unless
you are doing it for fun).
> > Your idea is nice in that the source code would store the
> > identifiers
>
> Nope - the mapping from XML element 'keyword tokens' to the visible
> keywords would be in an editor configuration file. Move the source
> code from one place to another and the keywords automatically
> translate according to the new configuration file.
I guess I meant that with fewer less precise words :-)
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