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| Re: call by name, was silly question: prefix vs postfix ops torbenm@app-2.diku.dk (2008-03-07) |
| Re: call by name, was silly question: prefix vs postfix ops DrDiettrich1@aol.com (Hans-Peter Diettrich) (2008-03-09) |
| Re: call by name, was silly question: prefix vs postfix ops gah@ugcs.caltech.edu (glen herrmannsfeldt) (2008-03-10) |
| Re: localized languages, was call by name ademakov@gmail.com (Aleksey Demakov) (2008-03-14) |
| Re: localized languages, was call by name torbenm@app-3.diku.dk (2008-03-14) |
| Re: localized languages, was call by name alexc@TheWorld.com (Alex Colvin) (2008-03-14) |
| Re: localized languages, was call by name derek@knosof.co.uk (Derek M. Jones) (2008-03-15) |
| 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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