Re: localized languages, was call by name

"Derek M. Jones" <derek@knosof.co.uk>
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:51:55 GMT

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From: "Derek M. Jones" <derek@knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:51:55 GMT
Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service
References: 08-03-012 08-03-019 08-03-026 08-03-031 08-03-034 08-03-038 08-03-044 08-03-045 08-03-055
Keywords: i18n, design
Posted-Date: 15 Mar 2008 15:09:26 EDT

Glen,


>> I have wondered about what non-english speakers think about the
>> english keywords used in the usual programming languages.
>>
>> It might be that some use a preprocessor to replace language appropriate
>> keywords, but I believe most just use the usual english words.


The results of the following experiment suggest that there is a lot of
natural language information in identifiers:
www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/accu07a.pdf


I have tried to get researchers from non-native English speaking
countries interested in investigating their country-mens use of native
language in source code. This seems to be a touchy subject with
people claiming that developers in their country all knowing English
very well and using it 'properly' in code.


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