Re^4: [PT_BR] Escrever em Portugues no Perlmonks

While some books of perl (and even some of the core perldocs) are available in translation

And usually those translations are of very bad quality, because the translators know nothing or very little about perl (or xml, databases, or whatever).

Once I bought a book about COM that was a translation from English to Spanish. But the translation was so bad that the only way to understand it, was to untranslate it back to English on my mind at the same time I was reading it, trying to find the original wording that actually made sense!

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Re^5: [PT_BR] Escrever em Portugues no Perlmonks by ambrus (Abbot) on Jun 09, 2005 at 16:00 UTC
Yes, that's true. With manuals of computer programs, I usually want to read the English manual even if there's a translation available. There can be exceptions though. I've read the Hungarian translation of the Owl book, and it was quite good. The big problem is that the translation of terminology isn't quite standard, as there are so few translated books, so even if a translation is fine, you might not understand it. I guess this could be less of a problem in Spanish or French though.	[reply]
Re^5: [PT_BR] Escrever em Portugues no Perlmonks by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 09, 2005 at 22:02 UTC
I once bought a book on Visual Basic where the translator managed it to translate the program code! So instead of `print "Hello World!"` it gave `druk "Hallo Wereld!"` CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply] [d/l] [select]