This discussion isn't meant to be offensive in anyway, and if it is I'm sorry. It was just an idea that hit me the other day

I'm a native southern Californian kid. When I was 23 I moved to the Philippines. The Philippines has hundreds of different language groups and traveling from one area to the next can be a little challenging, albeit fun and adventerous. But not knowing the language where your at can be challenging.

I know several of the Monks in the Monestary are from countries where English isn't the common dialect (Heidegger was kind and cool enough to give me a few Lithuanian lessons--thanks!). Yet all major programming languages are based in English. So the questions go something like this:

• When I jumped from Java to Perl my brain had challenges to overcome. Are there any additional challenges that come to programming for programmers who aren't native English speakers?
• Does the English aspect of programming make it harder for some people to go into the programming world?

I really don't know the answers to these questions because I am a native English speaker (and unfortunately a native Java speaker). I was just currious, and again don't mean to be offensive at all.

Thanks,
Petras

---

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

-Howard Aiken

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.