From: chiaro scuro <kiaroskuro@...>
Date: 2006-02-07T01:26:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Indentation vs. "end"s

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On 2/6/06, Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> wrote:
>
> The only word of caution that I would wish to express here is:
>
> NOT EVERYONE HAS ENGLISH AS A FIRST LANGUAGE!!!!!
>
> It may be expressive in English but for some people it is just an
> arbitrary
> sequence of symbols.
>

that applies to all keywords and libraries as well.

In my experience english is the de-facto standard when writing code.
Doing otherwise also creates endless problems when you need to hire
consultants in the international market.

I use native languages only when dealing with concepts that are very
specific to that language (usually legalese or  bureaucrat-speak).

Another good place where to use the native language would be customer-facin=
g
tests, I guess.


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