For myself, I have long ago adopted using English language only for code (including comments).

Interesting. You are not the first German person I have heard who has said that. Being a Canadian working in German I occasionally come accross code that is written in german. I find it very strange to see german words and abbreviations intermixed with the english of the underlying langauge.

I suspect that there are relationships between cognitive models that are beneficial for computing (and indeed most likely many other fields as well) and cognitive models that are beneficial for the language we speak. It seems to me that in the history of computing there are a disproportionate number of Germanic speakers (including English). While this could be accident of opporuntiuty I personally suspect not. On an off note, it also make me suspect that we will see the Arabic nations, historically very strong in mathematics and computation, achieve a great deal once the conditions are right. Lets not forget that Algorithm is an arabic word, and the numbers that we use are as well.


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demerphq

<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...

In reply to Re: Re: Polyglot Challenges by demerphq
in thread Polyglot Challenges by Petras

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