From: Eivind Eklund <eeklund@...>
Date: 2004-10-22T23:42:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Internationalized source code, was: Re: CamelCase issues

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:10:41 +0900, trans.  (T. Onoma)
<transami@runbox.com> wrote:
> On Friday 22 October 2004 04:49 am, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> | On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:56:34 +0900,
> | trans.  (T. Onoma) <transami@runbox.com> wrote:
> | > On one occasion someone (and I can't recall who it was unfortunately)
> | > made a fair argument against dependency on capitalization, as it also
> | > hampers progression into internationalization. Perhaps that's too
> | > forward looking --maybe Ruby will never be coded in Bengali, for
> | > instance, or any other language which have no capitalized forms. But I
> | > would like to look in that direction at least.
> |
> | errrrr... what would I do with Bengali source code?
> 
> Probably nothing. But what would a non-English speaking Bengali do with yours?

See separate reply to you under the "Re: CamelCase issues".  Brief
recap: memorizing the keywords in a foreign language is fairly easy;
there are other sides of programming that are the difficult part.  (I
learned programming before I learned english, and I've thought it to
people that didn't know english well.)

Of course, the alphabet might be an issue, but I think even this is
dwarfed by the difficulty inherent in programming.

Eivind.
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