From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-12-17T01:43:07+09:00
Subject: Re: any japanese books being translated to english ??


"ahoward" <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0212161609000.24230-100000@eli.fsl.noaa.gov...
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>
> [snip]
> M> Production level translation cost from Japanese to English is
> M> astonishingly expensive.
> [snip]
>
> if the publishers would be willing to put the book online, like the
Pickaxe,
> we might be able to put together a 'translation wiki'?  has this ever been
done
> before?  seems like it might work...

I'm sorry for bring ocaml up again, but this is what happened with the book
I listed recently in the functional programming thread. O'Reilly didn't want
to translate the book from French to English, but a number of volunteers
translated it into English. It is available in a preliminary version and it
is possible O'Reilly will publish the english version when it is complete -
otherwise it's still available online. The translation wasn't done on a
Wiki - volunteers was requested on the mailing list and the task was then
coordinated.

Mikkel